Beginning Web Services for Java       

 I.      Overview

a.      Distributed Systems

                                                               i.      CORBA

                                                             ii.      DCOM

                                                            iii.      RMI/EJB

b.      Tightly-coupled vs. loosely coupled systems

c.      Message-based systems (MOM)

d.      Web Services

                                                               i.      XML-RPC

                                                             ii.      Based on XML, SOAP, UDDI and WSDL

                                                            iii.      Standards-based

     II.      XML

a.      Overview

                                                               i.      HTML and SGML

                                                             ii.      Content vs. Presentation

b.      Basic XML

                                                               i.      Elements and attributes

                                                             ii.      DTD

c.      Schemas

d.      XSLT – compared with CSS

e.      Xpath

f.        XPointer

g.      Namespaces

   III.     SOAP

a.      Overview – enables access to services

b.      Overview of HTTP

 c.      Structure of a SOAP Message

d.      The SOAP Envelope

                                                               i.      SOAP Header

                                                             ii.      SOAP Body

e.      SOAP Faults

f.        RPC

g.      Return values – accessors, values, struct and array

h.      Invoking SOAP

i.        How SOAP messages are processed

j.        SOAP with Attachments

k.      Current state of SOAP – W3C, version

  IV.      UDDI/WSDL

a.      WSDL

                                                               i.      Overview – enables description of services

                                                             ii.      What is a service?

1.      Port and port type

2.      operation

3.      Messages

                                                            iii.      Interfaces

                                                           iv.      Binding an interface to a protocol

                                                             v.      Single vs. multiple message exchanges

                                                           vi.      Actors and message paths

b.      UDDI

                                                               i.      Overview – enabling discovery of services

                                                             ii.      UDDI registry holds:

1.      White pages – organized by name

2.      Yellow pages – organized by category

3.      Green pages – contains descriptions of services

                                                            iii.      tModel – contains metadata about the service

                                                           iv.      Public UDDI registries

1.      Manual registration

2.      Programmatic registration

     V.      Wrapup

a.      Current state of standards

b.      Outstanding issues

                                                               i.      Security

1.      Authorization

2.      Authentication

3.      Encryption

                                                             ii.      Transactions

  VI.      Java APIs for SOAP

a.      JWSDP 1.1

                                                               i.      JAXP

                                                             ii.      JAXB

                                                            iii.      JAX-RPC

                                                           iv.      JAXM and SAAJ

                                                             v.      Apache Tomcat and Ant

VII.      JAXP

a.      Simple API for XML (SAX)

                                                               i.      Event-based model

                                                             ii.      Namesspaces and Schemas

b.      Document Object Model (DOM)

                                                               i.      Tree-based model

                                                             ii.      Nodes, values and attributes

                                                            iii.      Modifying the DOM

                                                           iv.      Converting DOM to XML

VIII.      JAX-RPC

a.      Client models

                                                               i.      Stub-based

                                                             ii.      Dynamic Proxy

                                                            iii.      Dynamic Invocation

b.      SOAP Service

                                                               i.      Interface and Implementation classes

                                                             ii.      Generation of server tie classes and deployment

c.      Java/XML data mapping, arrays and complex types

  IX.      JAXM

a.      Interaction patterns

                                                               i.      Asynchronous inquiry/inquiry-response

                                                             ii.      Synchronous inquiry/update

                                                            iii.      Fire and forget

b.      Connections

c.      Profiles

d.      Providers

e.      Deployment

f.        Attachments to JAXM messages using SAAJ

g.      Relationship with J2EE

                                    h.      Servlets, JSPs and message beans

     X.      JAXB

a.      XML Schemas examined

b.      Binding declarations, default and custom

c.      Binding compiler – generating classes

d.      Marshalling and unmarshalling Java objects from XML files

e.      Validation

  XI.      Java APIs for Service Publishing and Discovery

a.      JWSDP 1.1

                                                               i.      JAXR

                                                             ii.      Apache Tomcat and Ant

b.      WSDL

c.      UDDI

                                                               i.      White pages – organized by name

                                                             ii.      Yellow pages – organized by category

                                                            iii.      Green pages – contains descriptions of services

XII.      JAXR Architecture

a.      Roles

                                                               i.      Registry Provider

                                                             ii.      JAXR Provider

                                                            iii.      JAXR Client

b.      Capabilities and Capability Profiles

XIII.      JAXR Programming Model

a.      javax.xml.registry

b.      javax.xml.registry.infomodel

XIV.      The JAXR Information Model

a.      Relationship to ebXML and UDDI

b.      The RegistryObject and Organization interfaces

c.      Classification of Registry Objects – the Classification interface

d.      Association of Registry Objects – the Association interface

XV.      Connection Management

a.      The Connection interface – between a JAXR client and JAXR provider

                                                               i.      Synchronous

                                                             ii.      Asynchronous

b.      Security Credentials

XVI.      Life-Cycle Management

a.      Creation, modification and deletion of registry objects

b.      The JWSDP Registry Server

XVII.      Appendix

Ant

                                                           Dependencies

                                                             Targets

                                                            Built-in tasks