Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

Exposing a RESTful service on the OSB

In this recipe, we will show how to REST-enable an existing service. We will reuse the CRM mock service used in Chapter 1, Creating a Basic OSB Service, but instead of exposing it as a SOAP-based web service as shown in Chapter 1, Creating a Basic OSB Service; we will expose it as a RESTful web service.

For that we first implement a business service that wraps the SOAP-based web service of the CRM system (a soapUI mock service). Then we create a proxy service using the HTTP transport and conditionally executing an action based on the HTTP method passed by the consumer:

Getting ready

Import the SoapUI project