Students are taught about tasks of processing HML documents and design and construction of web service components.

Students will be familiar with XML technology and standards for developing web services. Students are competent to design systems based on XML documents and design web service components in accordance with the present standards.

XML language: overview, syntax, structure of documents. Standards for specifying document structure and their processing. Transformation and visualization of documents. Document interconnections. Document search. XML databases. Web services: overview of concepts, available implementation technologies. Standards of web service components. Integration of information systems using web service components: coordination protocols, service composition. Standards and applications of web services in e-business systems.

Lectures. Computer practice. Consultations. The examination is oral. The final grade is based on the success in the laboratory practice and oral part of the examination.