Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are business component and client developers who are interested in incorporating web service technology in Java and Java EE 5 platform applications.
Prerequisites
- Implement and deploy a Java EE platform application containing web-tier and EnterpriseJavaBeans (EJB) components
- Assemble, deploy, and test a distributed Java platform technology application
- Use the Ant build environment (or other tool sets required by the labs)
Skills Gained
- Identify the building blocks of web services
- Analyze the Java web services technology and platform
- Implement XML processing APIs
- Explain and monitor SOAP messages
- Apply SOAP With Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) in web services
- Explain the web services description language (WSDL) and create a WSDL file
- Recognize the role of a Service Registry
- Implementweb services using Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) technology
- Develop web service clients
Course Content
Module 1 - Identifying the Building Blocks of Web Services
- Define a web service
- Explore the need for web services
- Identify the characteristics of a web service
- List the primary web service initiatives, specifications, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Recognize the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Basic Profile and its importance to the web services community
Module 2 - Analyzing the Java Web Services Technology and Platform
- Deploy and test a web service as a servlet endpoint
- Deploy and test a web service as an Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB™)component endpoint
- Run client applications that consume a web service
Module 3 - Applying XML Processing APIs
- Apply Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) in a REST-based web service
- Apply Simple API for XML (SAX) to format the output of a REST-based web service
Module 4 - Examining SOAP Messages
- Examine various SOAP messages
- Monitor SOAP messages being transmitted from a web service to a client and review SOAP fault messages
Module 5 - Developing Web Services Using the SOAP With Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)
- Create a web service using SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)
- Consume a SAAJ-based web service
Module 6 - Explaining the Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
- Identify the abstract model and concrete model of a WSDL file
- Create a WSDL file to describe a web service
Module 7 - Recognizing the Role of Service Registry
- Describe the purpose of a service registry
- Describe Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)
- Describe electronic business XML(ebXML)
- Identify the features of the ebXML registry
- Use the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) to access an ebXML registry
- Describe the JAXR API
Module 8 - Implementing Web Services Using Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) Technology
- Create a web service from a WSDL file
- Create a JAX-WS web service as a servlet endpoint
- Create a JAX-WS web service as an EJB component endpoint
Module 9 - Developing Web Service Clients
- Create a JAX-WS web-service client using a Dynamic Proxy
- Enable a web application to consume a JAX-WS-based web service




