Webové služby a jejich využití v Informačním systému katastru nemovitostí České republiky

This diploma thesis is focused on web services, which is used by the Information System of the Cadastre of Real Estate of the Czech Republic (ISKN) for communication with other information systems and applications. The main aim of this work is to analyze the use of selected web services issued by the ISKN system in practice and propose specific solution to improve some of them. The design of the improvement solution is based on a service analysis that reveals the current problems faced by their users. Another goal is to introduce web services that ISKN exposes and consumes when communicating with other information systems or applications. The work contains a categorized list of these services and describes their basic characteristics. The thesis is divided into several parts. The first part is devoted to the principles of service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services and their technologies. In the following part of the thesis, the ISKN system and other information systems and applications with which the ISKN system communicates are introduced. The next chapters focus on web services that ISKN exposes and uses to communicate with other systems. After their presentation, an analysis of selected web services is performed, which is presented in the form of introducing some examples of their use in practice. These examples reveal the current problem, the solution of which is proposed in the last part of this work.