It's better to name this course like Introduction to web services. The first two courses was useful for middle developers (and upper). It's just introduction for juniors. I think this course should not be included to "Software Design and Architecture".

If consider this course as an introduction, it's better to remove a section of legacy UDDI and BPEL and replace by GraphQL and JSON-RPC.

The videos felt very rushed. The instructor could have been slower. The content also could have been better. I had expected to learn/experiment on how to implement SOAP and REST tech but The assignments didn't test us on the concepts learned and rather very too simple. Downloading and using Android Studio was too much of an overkill for what we actually did in the assignment.

The content is pretty good.

The peer assignment is not hard, but took a lots of time to receive grade. The reason is that, the course doesn't have enough students...

Unfortunately this course was the last interesting one in the Software Architecture specialization. Maybe for guys who know nothing about service oriented architecture & web services, it provides a basic knowledge. - But in comparison to the other courses in the specialization, this course is very technical and also a bit outdated in my opinion. - Maybe a updated course with a look on modern web development and web-services would make more sense.

good course, however I think it has too much focus on very old technologies (CORBA, SOAP), and not enough focus on more recent technologies (REST).

Of the 4 courses for the specialization, this one seems to me to be the least complete, it lacks depth in several subjects and what I didn't like was that:

1_ For the final Peer-graded Assignment: Capstone Assignment 4.2 – Connect app to Elasticsearch. The server at 34.202.206.222 is shut down since 3 years ago (at least). You will have to install and make work your own Elasticsearch server.

2_ There is also no response in the comments from the course organisers, the only responses are among the course participants themselves.

However, the first three courses are very good and provide good information, especially for beginners.

Very shallow course. Quite incomplete and inconclusive final project. It was, without a doubt, the worst course of specialization. In general terms, I believe that we can not even consider these four courses a real specialization.

This course one the worst course I went through in my life. The vast majority of the material is outdated and useless. It felt like that the course was given just to add a forth course so it can be called a specialization. While taking the course I stopped multiple times and quit taking the course because the material was very useless and outdated...I just finished it to complete the specialization.

The narration is too fast and almost robotic .Preferable to have real teachers speaking like its a real class , makes it real.

Satisfied overall, but my suggestion is you should improve the final project. Make the students able to see the GET / POST / PUT / DELETE method when calling the remote server, more details for what is learned in this course.

The Elasticsearch server we were supposed to connect to and save/retrieve our data was down in the last assignment, so I set up my own server, but that didn't work because the Elasticsearch version I was using and the version the library used in the app were not compatible (the version they were using was basically 6 years old, released in 2015), I really enjoyed the first two courses in the specialization, but this course is legacy, and I wouldn't recommend anyone to take it.

Very helpful course but speakers speak little bit fast for foreign people

A good starting point to understand SOA.

It was hard and meaningful.

Most of the content is based on out of date and legacy standards. Assignments require an in-depth knowledge of UML to get points, unrelated to the point of the assignment. Several of the review criteria are questionable. The final capstone assignment is just a copy-paste exercise to change the implementation of one class to follow the same pattern as another that has already been implemented. No knowledge of service-oriented architecture is required to complete it.

I would like to give you my appreciation for giving this opportunity to me to participate in this course. This course was very useful and fruitful to me and although I have been working on different projects in related to this profession , I learned a lot of concepts about service oriented architecture and it gave me a concrete knowledge about designing services.

Even with access to prestige level course educators on this platform, my fondest "academic memories" are of people like the folks at the University of Alberta who truly care and put effort into their work! Thanks a bunch for your time, it is very much a pleasure to learn from such people as yourselves :)!

The course provides a brief introduction to the Service Oriented Architecture but provides enough details to serve as a good foundation for going into further depths of learning web services. Overall I'm definitely recommending this course to my friends and colleagues.

Great resources and explanation of each topic in details. Excellent content, useful for all software developers to upskill in architecting. I learned a lot and enjoyed the sessions. thanks for conceptualizing the course content.

Amazing explanation and examples to help understand each concept. Really glad to enroll in this course. I am more knowledgable now than I was.

Thank you so much for building this beautiful course.