Service-Oriented Computing and Software Integration in Computing Curriculum

Abstract

Web software development and cloud computing based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) represent the latest parallel distributed computing theories, practices, and technologies. As a distributed software development diagram, SOA is being taught in many computer science programs. We do not suggest using SOA to replace the currently taught Object-Oriented Computing paradigm. As SOA is based on Object-Oriented Computing, we suggest teaching SOA as the continuation and extension. At Arizona State University, SOA paradigm is incorporated into our Computing Science program since 2006. This paper presents the topics of the related courses and the open resources created for the courses, which are available for public accesses, including textbooks, lecture presentation slides, tests and assignments, software tools, and a repository of components, services and applications.