SOA Tutorials

SOA fundamentals in a nutshell Thinking about getting certified in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Want to catch the wave of interest in SOA? Take this tutorial to prepare for the IBM SOA fundamentals test leading to your certification as an IBM Certified SOA Associate. Even if you're not planning for certification right now, this tutorial is a good place to start learning about what SOA is and what it can do for your organization. Design and develop JAX-WS 2.0 Web services Using Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) technology to design and develop Web services yields many benefits, including simplifying the construction of Web services and Web service clients in Java, easing the development and deployment of Web services, and speeding up Web services development. This tutorial walks you through how to do all of this and more by developing a sample order-processing application that exposes its functionality as Web services. After going through this tutorial, you'll be able to apply these concepts and your newly acquired knowledge to develop Web services for your application using JAX-WS technology. Understanding Web Services specifications, Part 1: SOAP The current emphasis on Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) has put the spotlight on Web services, but it's easy to get lost in all the information being bandied about. This first in a series of tutorials on the major Web services specifications describes the basic concepts of Web services and SOAP. You'll learn how to build a SOAP server and client. Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7, Part 1 Build secure Web services with transport-level security using IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7 and IBM WebSphere® Application Server V6.1. Follow this three-part series for step-by-step instructions about how to develop Web services and clients, configure HTTP basic authentication, and configure HTTP over SSL (HTTPS). This first part of the series walks you through building a Web service for a simple calculator application. You generate and test two different types of Web services clients: a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) client and a stand-alone Java client. You also handle user-defined exceptions in Web services. IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer certification prep, Part 1: SOA best practices Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the next step in software development, leveraging XML technologies and Web services that went before. This best practices tutorial teaches you how to use SOA techniques in system design effectively. Use this tutorial, along with the other educational resources listed below, to help prepare for IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer certification. Build HTTPS Web services with Rational Application Developer, Part 1: Web services and Web services clients Build secure Web services using transport-level security (HTTPS) with IBM Rational Application Developer Version 6.0.1.1 and later. In Part 1 of this series, you will build Web services for a calculator application. You will generate and test two different types of Web services clients: a J2EE client and a J2SE client. Understanding Web Services specifications, Part 4: WS-Security This tutorial, Part 4 of the Understanding Web services specifications series, explains the concepts behind WS-Security and related standards such as XML Signature, which combine to make security in the Web services world not just possible, but practical. Build HTTPS Web services with Rational Application Developer, Part 2: Configure HTTPS Web services In Part 2 of this series, we configure HTTPS for a Web services application. We create a self-signed certificate using iKeyman and configure SSL settings using IBM WebSphere Admin Console. Finally, we test HTTPS Web services from both a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) client. Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7, Part 2 Part 1 of this tutorial series gave you step-by-step instructions for building a Web service for a simple calculator application. You generated Web services and tested two different types of Web services clients—a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) client and a stand-alone Java client—and handled user-defined exceptions in Web services. This second installment in the three-part series shows you how to configure HTTP basic authentication for your Web services and Web services client, and monitor the HTTP basic authentication information using the TCP/IP monitor. Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7, Part 3 Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part tutorial series showed you how to develop Web services and clients, and configure HTTP basic authentication. In this final installment, you create a self-signed certificate, key store, trust store, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) configuration using the IBM WebSphere Administrative Console. Then you configure HTTPS for your Web services and Web services client, and test HTTPS Web services from both a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) client and a stand-alone Java client.