Developing RESTful Services in Java Training

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Course Description

 
This course shows experienced Java programmers how to build RESTful web services using the Java API for RESTful Web Services, or JAX-RS. We begin with an overview of web services development in the Java EE platform, including SOAP, WSDL, REST; JAX-WS, JAXB, and JAX-RS. Then students learn to work with JAXB to bind Java object models to XML Schema. The bulk of the course is devoted to study of JAX-RS: students work with the Jersey implementation of JAX-RS to create RESTful services from simple single-value interactions to more sophisticated services that manage CRUD (create/retrieve/update/delete) operations on more complex data types, using JAXB to marshal and unmarshal data over the wire.
Course Length: 3 Days
Course Tuition: $1390 (US)

Prerequisites

Strong Java programming skills are essential

Course Outline

 

Chapter 1. Overview of Web Services

  • Why Web Services?
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • HTTP and XML
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
  • The SOAP Vision
  • The REST Vision
  • UDDI
  • The WS-I Basic Profile
  • Security

Chapter 2. Web Services for Java EE

  • Hosting Web Services: Scenarios
  • Web Services for Java EE
  • JAX-WS and JAXB
  • Web-Services Metadata
  • WSDL-to-Java and Java-to-WSDL Paths
  • Provider and Dispatch APIs
  • SAAJ and JAXP
  • JAX-RS for RESTful Services
  • JAXR

Chapter 3. The Java API for XML Binding

  • The Need for Data Binding
  • XML Schema
  • Two Paths
  • JAXB Compilation
  • Mapping Schema Types to Java
  • Java-to-XML Mapping Using Annotations
  • Marshaling and Unmarshaling
  • Working with JAXB Object Models

Chapter 4. The Java API for RESTful Services

  • Applications
  • Resources
  • Sub-Resources
  • Providers
  • Scanning and @ApplicationPath

Chapter 5. Dispatching Requests to Methods

  • The Application Path
  • The @Path Annotation
  • The HTTP Method Annotations
  • Sub-Resource Locators
  • Annotation Inheritance and overriding

Chapter 6. Parameter and Return Types

  • Simple Parameter Types
  • @Consumes and @Produces Annotations
  • @XXXParam Annotations
  • The @DefaultValue Annotation
  • Return Types
  • Binary Content
  • Delivering a File

Chapter 7. Entities and Complex Content

  • Entity Providers
  • Built-In Entity Providers
  • Working with XML
  • Driving XML Representations from Schema

Chapter 8. Context and Lifecycle

  • Reading Web Resources
  • Finding Java EE Components
  • Finding Databases
  • Security Contexts

Appendix A. Course Tools and Utilities

Appendix B. Handy Guide to Web-Services Acronyms

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