Java/Eclipse Review

• Java Development
• Tools
• Perspectives and Editors
• Server Configurations
• Debugging Tools
• Project Properties

Web Services Basics

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• What are Web Services?
• Web Services Advantages
• Interactions and Component
• Web Services Standards: XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
• Web Services Interoperability (WS-I)
• Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP)

Web Service Development

• Development Approaches
• Runtime Environments: Apache Axis2, Weblogic, and IBM WebSphere
• WS-I Compliance
• Creating a Web Service from a JavaBean
• Exposing a Stateless Session Bean as a Web Service
• Creating an Axis2 Web Service
• Generated Files
• Testing the Web Service
• Defining Deployment: webservices.xml, ibm-webservices-bnd.xmi and ibmwebservices-ext.xmi
• Editing WSDL
• Using the Web Services Explorer

SOAP

• SOAP Processing Model
• SOAP Messages
• SOAP Message Elements (Envelope, Header, Body and Fault)
• Communication Styles (Document Style & RPC Style)
• Encoding
• Java/SOAP Mappings
• SOAP Bindings
• Error Handling
• SOAP Implementations

TCP/IP Monitor

• Overview
• TCP/IP Monitor Configuration
• Controlling the Monitor
• Using the TCP/IP Monitor View
• Examining Requests and Responses
• Examining SOAP Messages

WSDL

• Overview
• Java/WSDL Mapping
• Abstract vs. Concrete Descriptions
• WSDL Document Structure
• WSDL Elements (Types, Ports, Services, Messages, Operations and Port Types)
• Bindings and Extensibility Elements
• WSDL Style/Use
• Service and Port Definitions
• Binding to a Service (Early vs. Late Binding)

UDDI

• Overview
• Registries
• UDDI Interactions
• UDDI Data Model
• UDDI4J
• UDDI Clients

Web Services Explorer

• Overview of the Publishing Process
• Web Services Explorer Functions
• Launching the Web Services Explorer
• Accessing a UDDI Registry
• Publishing a Business Entity, Business Service and Service Interface
• Locating Web Services

JAX-RPC

• Overview
• JAX-RPC Model
• Service Endpoint Definition
• Development Steps
• The Service Life Cycle Interface
• Service Deployment
• Java/XML Mappings
• Web Service Clients (Static Stub, Dynamic Proxy and Dynamic Invocation Interface)
• The javax.xml.rpc.Service Interface
• Handlers
• Data Type Mapping
• JAX-RPC Implementations

Web Services Client Development

• Web Service Client Wizard
• Generating a Proxy
• Client Types
• Generating Sample JSPs
• Testing the Proxy
• Generated Files
• Using the Generated Proxy
• Web Services Client Editor

Axis2

• History
• Engine
• Framework
• Handler Chains
• Services
• Deployment Options (JWS and WSDD)
• Mapping Tools (Java2WSDL and WSDL2Java)
• Generated Files
• Development Process
• Handlers
• Clients
• Custom Type Mapping
• TCP Monitor Tool (tcpmon)

Web Services for JEE

• JEE Architecture
• Port Definition
• Managing Ports
• Requirements for Exposing Session Beans and Java Classes
• Service Implementation Bean Lifecycle
• Container Responsibilities
• Web Services Deployment Descriptor (webservices.xml)
• JAX-RPC Mapping
• Client Development
• Client Deployment Descriptors
• Security

Application Assembly Overview

• Application Assembly and Packaging
• Deployment Descriptors
• Bindings

Web Services Security Concepts

• Web Service Security Risks
• Encryption and Decryption
• Cryptography
• Certificates
• Digital Signatures
• Security: Message Level vs. Transport Level
• SSL/TLS
• WS-Security

Defining Web Services Security

• App Server Security Model for Web Services
• WS-Security Authentication
• Enabling Authentication
• Message Integrity Using XML Signatures
• Configuring Integrity
• WS-Security Confidentiality
• Configuring Confidentiality

Deploying Web services in an Application Server

• Architecture
• Administrative Console
• Web Services Support
• Creating Required Resources
• Deploying a Web Service to an Application Server
• Managing Deployed Applications

SOAP Messages with Attachments

• The Need for SOAP Attachments
• Attachments vs. Encoding
• MIME defined
• MIME Header Fields
• Multipart/Related Content Type
• SOAP Message Package
• Referencing Attachments
• Related Java APIs
• JAX-RPC Mappings: MIME to Java
• WSDL MIME Binding

RESTful Web Services

• The Big picture
• RESTful Events and Event Handlers
• An Example RESTful Service

Appendix: XML Basics

• The History of XML
• XML Documents: Markup and Data
• XML Document Components and Structure
• XML Tags
• Well-Formed XML
• Elements and Attributes
• Names and Name Tokens
• Namespaces
• Entities and Escape Sequences
• CDATA Sections and Comments

Appendix: Namespaces

• The Need for Namespaces
• Declaring Namespaces
• Qualified Names
• Namespace Scoping
• Default Namespaces

Appendix: Validating XML With DTDs

• Approaches to Validation
• DOCTYPE Declaration
• Element Declarations and Element Content
• Modifiers
• Mixed Content
• Attribute Declarations
• Entities
• Notation Declarations
• Validating vs. Non-Validating Parsers

Appendix: Validating XML With XML Schemas

• XML Schema Structure
• Element Declarations
• Built-in Data Types
• Creating and Extending Types
• Defining Restrictions
• List Types and Union Types
• Anonymous Types
• Complex Types
• Occurrence Constraints
• Defining Attributes and Attribute Groups
• Global Elements & Attributes
• Declaring Mixed Content