Metro Web Services Hands-on Lab at JavaOne 2008

Metro Hands-on Lab at JavaOne 2008

Fabian Ritzman, Martin Grebac and I  have developed a hands-on lab on Metro Web Services for JavaOne 2008. At JavaOne hands-on labs, you bring your own laptop, this allows you to easily take home and reuse the stuff you learn in the lab. We have a step by step lab doc with screenshots etc. that you can work through to familiarize yourself with Metro. Fabian and I will briefly explain and demonstrate the lab exercises, then you will complete them on your laptop. There will be proctors to help with any questions. Hope to see you there!  You can find out more about the lab here: https://www28.cplan.com/cc191/session_details.jsp?isid=296941&ilocation_id=191-1&ilanguage=english

The title of the lab is "Metro: Try Out Simple and Interoperable Web Services". Session ID is 3410. The lab takes place on Tuesday, 10:50 - 12:50.  Here is the complete abstract:

Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack. You can use it for every type of web service, from simple to reliable, secured, and transacted web services that interoperate with .NET services. Metro bundles stable versions of the JAX-WS (Java™ API for XML Web Services) reference implementation and WSIT (Web Services Interoperability Technology).

JAX-WS is a fundamental technology for developing SOAP-based and RESTful Java technology-based web services. WSIT enables secure, reliable interoperability between Java technology-based web services and Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation.

This Hands-on Lab starts by developing a simple Metro web service and showing how to enhance this web service with Metro features such as reliability and security. The next part of the lab enables a web service client with Metro security features and has it interoperate with the previously built service. The lab shows the ease of development the NetBeans™ 6.0 release provides for achieving this.

The lab uses the NetBeans 6.0 release to modify and configure both the web service and the client, using Sun’s GlassFish™ project application server as the container. The lab uses WS-Reliability and WS-Security as examples of Metro’s secure, reliable features.

The lab comprises the following sections:

• Develop and deploy a basic catalog web service to return a list of catalog items
• Test the web service, using the Tester application provided by the GlassFish project

• Enable reliability on the catalog web service, and examine the messages
• Develop and deploy a Metro client for the catalog web service, and configure the client for reliable access to the web service

• Enable security on the catalog web service, and examine the messages
• Configure the Metro client for the catalog web service (from the previous exercise) for secure access to the secure web service

Prerequisites: some understanding of Servlets, XML, and SOAP

At JavaOne, this lab will be presented in Hall E (Room# 132).

Please bring your laptops to this lab as there no machines provided in this room.

• Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP, Solaris 10/11, Linux
• Memory requirement: 768MB minimum, 1GB recommended
• Disk space requirement: 300 MB

Software requirements:

• JDK 5.0 or 6
• NetBeans 6.0.1 with Web & Java EE pack
• GlassFish V2 UR1