Building REST and SOAP Web Services with Java Training

SOAP and REST Web Services Course Outline

• Web Services Overview

  Interoperable applications with SOA

  • Designing an SOA integration architecture
  • Implementing SOAs with web services

  Java standard APIs for web services

  • Building SOAP–based services with JAX–WS
  • Developing RESTful services with JAX–RS

• Defining SOAP Messages with WSDL

  XML essentials

  • XML namespaces
  • Describing XML with schema

  Structure of SOAP messages

  • Role of SOAP in web services
  • Operations, messages and faults

  Anatomy of a WSDL document

  • Defining the interfaces of a web service
  • Specifying implementation

• Implementing Code–First Web Services

  Exposing plain old Java objects (POJOs) as web services

  • Applying JAX–WS annotations to POJOs
  • Configuring and deploying a web service implementation

  Implementing SOAP clients in Java

  • Generating client–side artifacts from WSDL
  • Modifying client code to permit message monitoring
  • Authenticating and authorising clients

  Augmenting SOAP–based services

  • Incorporating best practises for web services
  • Implementing policies for security, reliability and message optimisation

• Generating Contract–First Web Services

  Contract–first service development

  • Comparing contract–first and code–first services
  • Creating portable Java artifacts

  Importing a WSDL document

  • Building interoperable applications by conforming to Web Services Interoperability (WS–I) standards
  • Implementing a web service endpoint using JAX–WS

• Building RESTful Web Services

  Introduction to REST (Representational State Transfer)

  • Describing the REST architectural style
  • Comparing SOAP and RESTful web services

  Developing RESTful web services using JAX–RS

  • Adding JAX–RS annotations to a POJO
  • Configuring result types using HTTP request headers
  • Deploying a JAX–WS service

  Customising a RESTful Service Implementation

  • Interacting with request URLs
  • Mapping URLs to Java classes and methods
  • Binding URL components to method arguments

• Providing Server–Side Support for Ajax Clients

  Handling JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

  • Applying cases for JSON with RESTful services
  • Interpreting a message formatted as JSON

  Mapping Java to JSON

  • Controlling JSON generation with JAXB annotations
  • Defining a JSON return type from a Java method

• Developing RESTful Clients

  Dispatching REST messages using JAX–RS

  • Building the client’s request
  • Handling the service’s response code and exceptions

  Marshalling JavaBeans with JAXB

  • Mapping XML with Java API for XML Binding (JAXB)
  • Converting Java arguments with JAXB and JAX–RS

  Processing asynchronous messages

  • Implementing server–push with JAX–RS
  • Delivering asynchronous client requests

• Securing Web Services

  Configuring a secure web service

  • Configuring HTTP Basic Authentication
  • Establishing secure message transmission with SSL/TLS

  Authenticating and authorising clients

  • Controlling access to web services and methods
  • Providing authentication information to web services