Contents

1. Web Service and SOA Fundamentals

1. Introduction

2. Evolution of Distributed Computing

2.1 Core Distributed Computing Technologies

2.2 Challenges in Distributed Computing

2.3 Role of J2EE and XML in Distributed Computing

2.4 XML in Distributed Computing

3. Web Services

4. Web Service Architecture

4.1 Components of Web Services

4.2 Web Services Characteristics

4.3 Web Services Benefits

5. Emergence of Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

6. Basic Steps of Implementing Web Services

7. Developing Web Services- Enabled Applications

7.1 Web Services Implementation Using J2EE Environment

7.2 Developing Web Services using J2EE: An Example

8. Packaging and Deploying the Service

8.1 Creating Web Service Clients

2. SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol

1. Introduction

2. Inter Application Communication and Wire Protocols

2.1 SOAP as a Wire Representation

2.2 Soap as a Message Protoco3

3. Structure of a SOAP Message

3.1 SOAP Envelope

3.2  SOAP Header

3.3 SOAP Body

4. SOAP Communication Model

4.1 RPC-Style Web Services

4.2  Document (Message)-Style Web services

5. Building SOAP Web Services

6. Developing SOAP Web Services Using Java

7. Error Handling in SOAP

8. Advantages and Disadvantages of SOAP

3. Describing and Discovering Web Services

1. Introduction

1.1 WSDL in the World of Web Services

2. Web Service Life Cycle

2.1 Anatomy of WSDL Definition Document

3. WSDL Bindings

4. WSDL Tools

5. Limitations of WSDL

6. Service Discovery

6.1 Role of Service Discovery in SOA

6.2 Service Discovery Mechanism

7. UDDI

8. Searching Information in a UDDI Registry

9. Deleting Information in a UDDI Registry

9.1 Limitations of UDDI

4. The REST Architectural Style

1. Introducing HTTP

1.1 The HTTP Request and Response

2. The Core Architectural Elements of a RESTFUL System

2.1 Characteristics of RESTful systems

3. RESTful Architecture

4. Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services

4.1 Java Tools and Frameworks for Building RESTful Web Services

5. JSON Message Format And Tools And Frameworks Around JSON

6. Design Guidelines for Building RESTful Web Services

7. Secure RESTful Web Services

8. Build RESTful web services with JAX-RS APIs

4. OAUTH2 API Keyss