Week 2

What I Did

Defined the Project Idea Clearly -

• Spoke to my contact and asked questions;
  
  
  1. What are the needs of the organization?
  2. How is this project expected to affect staff at the institution?
  3. What benefits does the organization expect from this solution?
     
  4. What about formal approval?
     

• Used the Internet to define my key terms
  
  
  1. Web Services
     
  2. SOAP
     
  3. WSDL
  4. RPC
  5. RESTful Web Service
  6. CRUD
  7. REST
  8. Middleware,
     
  9. MOM – Message Oriented Middleware
  10. XML
  11. DTD
  12. Data Schema
  13. Meta Data
  14. MIS
  15. Dynamic Content Management

How I Did It

Used Mostly online references - Google, Apache.org, W3.org

Notes from Katy Ann Marshall - Comp1309 - Web Engineering

Methodology

Searching online - When looking at documents online to find relevant information the following process is used;

When we open a link / document / pdf / article that a search returns:
Use the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl f" to bring up the Search Dialog Box.
Type the keyword being searched for and look through the document for the instance of the word.
Read the Sentences surrounding the keywords to make an evaluation of if this document is relevant to the data being searched for.

Why I Did It

Documentation and references necessary to deliver a Project Proposal - This document is due 28th of August.

This project will be pursued over the next 9 months until April of next year (tentative dates).
The information gathering process must start now. The more information captured in the early stages of the project will lend to a strong foundation of knowledge for future use.
In addition a strong mental idea/s of what is to be achieved will lend to constant brainstorming on ideas for conducting analysis, design decisions and eventually implementation.


Lessons Learned

The nature of this project is very technical. The technologies involved are very new to the market some gaining popularity and others emerging.

Time management is going to be the key to success.


The difference between SOAP and REST.


What I Plan to Do

1. Start my project proposal
2. Additional Reading - What are the technologies used for
   
3. Try and access some non typical / education / university based resources
4. Sign up for the online collaboration account