Well, here it is, the last week of class....Wahoo!  While I have enjoyed this class, my other one has been rather boring and having the two of them together while working has provided for a very couple of months.  Needless to say, I am ready for a break!  I am excited though since our project is almost completely done.  While it has been a challenge, I have actually liked going through the design, implementation and testing of a complete project.  At work I usually only get to be involved in one area of the project and never get to see them from start to finish, so this was a nice change.

The semester is coming to and end fast, but I still have a lot to get done.  We are having some issues with our sap wsdls which is kind of stalling the rest of the programming.  I think tonight I might try to hook up to sample webservices for getproductlist() just so that we can get a little farther ahead on the coding of the web application.  This project is much more involved than we originally anticipated and while we thought we had a jump on things, I'm beginning to feel like we're falling behind.

Our group has met several times already and we managed to complete deliverable #2 last weekend.  So, this weekend we met to begin the .net and sap programming pieces.  I focused on designing the web forms which honestly wasn't that difficult, but it was time consuming to get everything in place.  Later this week I would like to actually get to some of the coding so I can link the forms together and start trying to call the web services.  First, though, I have to write a paper for my other class.....

Our group met this weekend to work on deliverable 2, the service dictionary and assigning team responsibilities.  I think the service dictionary really helped to bring clarification of what the difference between the service and the methods are.  I also think it also helped, in my mind atleast, clarify what exactly would be passing between XI and what the .NET application would be taking care of.

This week consists of a second meeting with my group to working on our designs for the group project.  I think we are all starting to get a better understanding of the steps involved, now it is just figuring out how to code and get SAP to do what we want.  This should be interesting since none of us really work with the messaging part of SAP or object oriented programming in our daily jobs. 

I wasn't fortunate enough to escape the snow over spring break, so I had plenty of time to work on homework.  I am pretty much finished with my term paper and just need to work on the formatting.  I actually kind of enjoyed the research on my topic (EAI and Data Quality) since it relates to what I currently am working on at my job.  I work in a primarly oracle data warehousing environment, so it was interesting to see how other companies with more of an EAI approach integrate data quality testing in to their environments.  I am hoping to get the formatting done this weekend so I am free to concentrate on our group project.

With the mention of the midterm in this weeks class, it's nice to see we're nearing the midpoint of the semester.  Hopefully some decent weather and temperatures will start to make their way here!  Anyway, I plan to take the midterm on Saturday and then start in on my paper.  I'd like to atleast get started since I can kind of be a procrastinator when it comes to the writing portion of classes.  Other than that, it looks like we have another lab next week.  I am excited to get in to SAP farther and see what it can.

It was a nice break to get back in to the lab and to finally see the much talked about SAP tool.  From my first brush with the tool, it seems fairly easy to used and understand how to do things.  Of course, this could be because we also had directions to follow!  I am looking forward to working more with SAP and seeing the extent of what it can do.

Missed this week of class due to the fact that I wasn't feeling well.  I figured it was probably better that I didn't bring all my germs with me to class to share.  I have read through the chapters pertaining to the 2/18 class and the notes, but don't feel that I have a good understanding of it all.  I plan to go back through atleast the notes this weekend. 

In the meantime, I have gone ahead and read the next article on the Health Service industry.  Being that I work in insurance (the supposed "bad guy" when it comes to medical services), it was interesting to see that the industry is slightly slow compared to most as far as integrating systems.  Since there is such necessity in sharing medical records when seeing more than one doctor or when in for hospital stay, I would have thought this is something that would have been farther along.

This week was a bit more interesting.  XML is something I am familiar with from a recent project at work (and previous class experience), but I am not too familiar with the xslt and xsd file.  The exercise provided on the website gives a nice example of how they all work together.  I also found lab 1 interesting.  I have not worked with websites/webservice, so this is all new to me.  I am curious to find out what is all going on behind the scenes and how all the pieces work together.

Week 2---I have now ventured in to reading the book and think it gives a nice overview of the concepts.  Whether that is how the whole book is or the way it is just starting out, we will see.

On another note.  I am having issues creating a test website.  After I put in my sba login and password, I get the error:  Unable to create the Web 'http://www.746.sba.uwm.edu/kmbozora/testWebSite.'  Server error:  The server extensions were unable to access the file "frontpg.lck."  Please check the file permissions.    Is any one else getting this?  Any suggestions?

Not much to say since it is only the first week.  I am looking forward to learning about SAP since it is something that we don't currently use at the company I work for and since I have heard it mentioned alot in the business world.  Should be interesting....