Design and implementation of an e-Transcript system using Web services

Web services technology is a burgeoning technology that has received tremendous amount of attention in the software industry in recent years under the broader umbrella of service-oriented architecture (SOA). It is fast becoming an important emerging technology that utilizes the power of the Web to produce an integrated, interoperable solutions based on standard Web protocols that are easy to consume in a heterogeneous network. The paper showcases various Web service features and how they can be used for a secure online transcript transmission system. It discusses how the latest state-of-the-art technology can be used to solve the antiquated problem of transcript processing faced by many universities and students around the world presently. The experience gained and the possible future enhancements of the work are also described.