Web Services Edge Conference & Exposition. (Special Insert).

We are pleased to bring the latest edition of the very successful Web Services Edge Conference & Expo to the city of Boston this March 18-20, 2003. Now in our third year, we will continue to build on our past success to make available the most current and relevant information to you, our valued attendee.

With the widespread adoption of Web services across the industry, developers are facing new challenges. In this year's conference program, we will address these challenges with our most comprehensive program to date, Web Services Edge 2003 will provide practical approaches and solutions to overcome the hurdles in developing and deploying Web services in today's competitive markets.

Once again Web Services Edge will feature four distinguished tracks - Java, Web Services, NET, and XML along with the newly added Vendor Track The Vendor Track will allow specific sponsors, along with their customers, a platform to present their latest technical developments and real world applications across all the related technologies.

Your three days will include highly informative keynotes, conference sessions, tutorials, industry-leading university certification programs, case studies, and demo presentations. The Expo Hall will be open on March 19 and 20, featuring the largest grouping of quality exhibitors prepared to field your questions and solve your development needs.

All the best,

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Features & Attractions

TO ALL CONFERENCE & EXPO REGISTRANTS

* 3 Days Packed with Education and Training

* 5 Keynotes & 3 Panel Discussions

* 60 Hard Huffing and Current Seminars

* FREE .NET with Russ' Tool Shed Tutorial

* Web Services & XML Tutorials

* Java University Certification Training

* HOT Industry-Leading Certification Programs

* NEW Extended Learning: Evening Conference Session & Certification Classes

* INFORMATIVE Round Table Discussions

* Opening Day Welcome Reception

* SAMS Meet the Authors Hot Topics Lounge

* COMPELLING Case Studies & Best Practices

* FEATURED Product Demonstrations on the show floor

* RIVETING Real-time SYS-CON Radio Interviews

SUN MICROSYSTEMS Java[TM] University Program

Web Services Programming Using Java[TM] Technology and XML Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Who Should Attend

Web services designers and programmers, application developers and programmers using the Java programming language mho have experience using tire Java[TM] 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE[TM]).

Prerequisites:

Experience using the Java programming language and basic knowledge of XML.

Overview:

This one-day seminar provides in-depth knowledge of Web services and shows how to develop Web services using the Java programming language and XML, the technologies of portable code and portable data respectively.

The session will start with an introduction on fundamental concepts and characteristics of Web services. This will be followed by a detailed explanation of how to implement, how to describe, how to register, how to discover, and how to invoke Web services using core Web services standards - Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI). In addition, the ebXML standard, which defines the framework for the global electronic marketplace, will be talked about in detail. Also, the tools for building and deploying Web services will be discussed. Each topic will be presented with concrete examples and demonstrations when possible.

Attendees will also learn how to use standard Java APIs for Web services, mainly Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM), Java technology API for XML-based RPC …