Ebook: Java Web Services: Up and Running

Preface -- Web Services Quickstart: -- Web Service miscellany -- What good are Web Services? -- Web Services and service-oriented architecture -- Very short history of Web Services: -- From DCE/RPC to XML-RPC -- Distributed object architecture: a Java example -- Web Services to the rescue -- What is REST?: -- Verbs and opaque nouns -- Review of HTTP requests and responses -- HTTP as an API: -- Two HTTP clients in Java -- First RESTful example: -- How the predictions Web Service works -- Client against the predictions Web Service -- Why use servlets for RESTful Web Services? -- What's next? -- RESTful Web Services: The Service Side: -- RESTful service as an HttpServlet: -- Implementation details -- Sample client calls against the predictions2 service -- RESTful Web Service as a JAX-RS resource: -- First JAX-RS Web Service using Jersey -- Publishing JAX-RS resources with a Java application -- Publishing JAX-RS resources with Tomcat -- Adage class -- JAX-RS generation of XML and JSON responses -- Porting the predictions Web Service to JAX-RS -- RESTful Web Service as Restlet resources: -- Sample calls against the adages2 service -- Publishing the adages2 Restlet Service without a web server -- RESTful service as a @WebService provider -- What's next? -- Restful Web Services: The Client Side: -- Perl client against a Java RESTful Web Service -- Client against the Amazon E-Commerce Service -- Standalone JAX-B example: -- Xstream option -- Another client against the Amazon E-Commerce Service -- CTA bus-tracker services -- RESTful clients and WADL documents -- JAX-RS client API -- JSON for JavaScript clients: -- JSONP and Web Services -- Composed RESTful service with jQuery -- Ajax polling example -- What's next? -- SOAP-Based Web Services: -- SOAP-based Web Service -- RandService in two files -- Clients against the RandService: -- Java client against the RandService -- C♯ client against the RandService -- Perl client against the RandService -- WSDL service contract in detail: -- Types section -- Message section -- PortType Section -- Binding section -- Service section -- Java and XML schema data type bindings -- Wrapped and unwrapped document style -- Wsimport artifacts for the service side -- SOAP-Based clients against Amazon's E-Commerce Service: -- Asynchronous clients against SOAP-Based services -- What's next? -- SOAP Handlers And Faults: -- Handler level in SOAP-Based services and clients -- Handlers and faults in the predictions SOAP service: -- Backend support classes -- From the client to the service -- Signature verification -- Faults from the application and handler levels -- Linking the Service-Side handler to the service -- Handler chain with two handlers -- SOAP-Based Web Services and binary data -- Transport level -- Axis2 -- What's next? -- Web Services Security: -- Wire-level security: -- HTTPS basics -- Symmetric and asymmetric encryption/decryption -- How HTTPS provides the three security services -- HTTPS handshake -- HttpsURL connection class -- Very lightweight HTTPS server and client -- HTTPS in a production-grade web server: -- Enforcing HTTPS access to a Web Service -- HTTPS client against the predictions2 service -- Container-managed security: -- Linking the service web.xml with Tomcat security realm -- Client side in users/roles security -- Using the curl utility for HTTPS testing -- @WebService under HTTPS with Users/Roles security -- Using a digested password instead of a password -- WS-security: -- Securing a @WebService with WS-security -- What's next -- Web Services And Java Application Servers: -- Web container: -- Message-oriented middleware -- Enterprise Java Bean container -- Naming an lookup service -- Security provider -- Client container -- Database system -- Toward a lightweight JAS -- GlassFish basics -- Servlet-Based Web Services under GlassFish: -- Example with mixed APIs -- Interactive Website and SOAP-Based Web Service -- @WebService as a @Stateless session EJB: -- Packing and deploying the predictions EJB service -- Client against the predictions EJB service -- TomEE: Tomcat with Java EE extensions: -- Porting the predictions EJB Web Service to TomEE -- Deploying an EJB in a WAR file -- Where is the best place to be in Java Web Services?: -- Back to the question at hand -- Index.;Annotation