Today's trend is to integrate existing systems in a standard way to make
disparate implementations interoperate. Web Services and XML came along with
the ability to provide a standard communication interface between these
systems, as well as the standard description language - WSDL - the Web
Services Description Language that lets those systems define the structure of
the services they're providing. Web Services are built using three classic
components:
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - the XML-based communication protocol
for sending data using Web Services. WSDL - Web Ser... (more)
The Web Tools Project (WTP) by the Eclipse Foundation is a set of open source
tools that substantially reduce the time required for the development of Web
applications, EJBs, and Web services. The WTP's current version is 0.7.1 and
version 1.0 is coming later this year. The framework provides wizards and
tools to create EJBs, Web components such as servlets and JSPs, and Web
services usi... (more)
In the article "Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse WTP"
(http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/152270.htm ), we created a Web application using
Eclipse Web Tools Project, the Tomcat application server, and the MySQL
database server. That application (DBTest) was good, however, it had some
limitations: Java Server Pages (JSP) names were hard-coded inside the servlet
code SQL was also hard-c... (more)
This session is a live demo of development of the Web Services using Eclipse
and Web Tools Project (WTP). You'll learn the basics of what Web Services
are, what are the current standards, the role of the Eclipse software
foundation and Web Tools project. You'll see how to build a bottom-up and
top-down web service with the help of WPT.
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