August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 47m
English
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Chapter-by-Chapter Overview
The second edition has seven chapters. The following list offers a summary of each chapter.
- Chapter 1, Web Services Quickstart
- This chapter begins the code-driven tour of web services with an overview of the differences—and the similarities—between REST and SOAP. Why are web services of any use? This question is addressed with examples: one example focuses on using web services to automate access to the data and functionality available on the Web; the other example focuses on web services as a way to integrate diverse software systems. The theme of interoperability is pursued throughout the book with examples. Chapter 1 includes a short history of web services, with emphasis on how the SOA approach to distributed systems differs significantly from the DOA approach that predates yet continues to compete with web services. The chapter then focuses on how HTTP itself is at the center of the RESTful way to web-based, distributed software systems. XML and JSON are introduced as document-exchange formats of special interest in RESTful services. The chapter includes code examples: a pair of Java HTTP clients used to illustrate key features of HTTP; and a first RESTful service, which consists of a JSP script and two backend POJO classes. The curl utility is used to make sample client calls, including failed ones, against the first service. The chapter covers practical matters such as installing the Tomcat web server and using the provided Ant script to compile, ...
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