Java Web Services Training Outline

Durations:32 Hours
1. Overview of Web Services

2. Web Services for Java EE

Why Web Services?

HTTP and XML

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

Universal Description, Discovery and

Integration (UDDI)

Hosting Web Services: Scenarios

Invoking Web Services: Scenarios

Web Services for Java EE (WS4JEE)

The Automated Approach: JAX-WS

and JAXB

Manual Options: SAAJ and JAXP

Portable Web-Services Metadata

Service Registries: JAXR

Service-Oriented Architecture

The WS-I Basic and Related Profiles

REST

3. The Simple Object Access Protocol

4. The Java API for XML Binding

Messaging Model

The Need for Data Binding

Namespaces

XML Schema

SOAP over HTTP

Two Paths

The SOAP Envelope

JAXB Compilation

The Message Header

Mapping Schema Types to Java

The Message Body

Java-to-XML Mapping Using

Annotations

SOAP Faults

Marshaling and Unmarshaling

Attachments

Working with JAXB Object Models

In-Memory Validation

5. Web Services Description Language

Web Services as Component-Based

Software

The Need for an IDL

Two Paths

Web Services Description Language

How It Works: Build Time and

Runtime

WSDL Information Model

The Service Endpoint Interface

The Abstract Model -- Service Semantics

Working from WSDL

Message Description

Working from Java

Messaging Styles

RPC and Document Styles

The Concrete Model -- Ports, Services,

Locations

One-Way Messaging

Extending WSDL -- Bindings

Binary Protocols

Service Description

7. WSDL-to-Java Development

6. The Java API for XML-Based Web

Services

8. Client-Side Development

The @WebService Annotation

Stubs and Proxies

Generated Code

Generated Code

Compilation and Assembly

Locating a Service

Deployment

Invoking a Service

Runtime Behavior

Scope of Code Generation

More JAXB: Mapping Collections

More JAXB: Mapping Enumerations

10. JAX-WS Best Practices

Which Way to Go?

Interoperability Impact

The @WebMethod, @XmlParam, and

Related Annotations

Portability Impact

Scope of Code Generation

Polymorphism in Web Services

More JAXB: Mapping Inheritance

Web Services as Java EE

Components

Controlling the XML Model

lifecycle Annotations

Context Interfaces

The @WebServiceRef Annotation

9. Java-to-WSDL Development

Controlling the WSDL Description

11. Provider and Dispatch APIs

Stepping Down

The Provider<T> Interface

Implementing a Provider

JAXB Without WSDL

Integrating JAXP

The Dispatch<T> Interface

Building Clients

13. Message Handlers

12. The SOAP with Attachments API for

Java

The SAAJ Object Model

Parsing a SOAP Message

Reading Message Content

Working with Namespaces

Creating a Message

Setting Message Content

14. EJBs as Web Services

Handling SOAP Headers

Enterprise JavaBeans

Servlet Endpoint Context

Three Tiers for Java EE

MessageContext and SOAPMessageContext

Message Handlers and Handler Chains

Processing Model and Patterns

Client-Side Handlers

15. Handling Binary Content

The WS-I Attachments Profile

Using base64Binary

MIME Attachments

JAX-WS Support

MTOM and XOP

SAAJ Support

EJB3 and JAX-WS

Session Beans as Web Service

Endpoints

The Bean's Service Endpoint

Interface

SOAP as an EJB Protocol

Pitfalls