Consuming Web services: Use Rational Application Developer to create and consume Web services

Level: Introductory

Kunal Mittal (kunal@kunalmittal.com), Portal/J2EE Architect, Consultant

13 Apr 2005

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This tutorial explains the basic elements of a Web service and shows how you can use IBM Rational Application Developer to build, consume, deploy, and test Web services. You also learn how to consume an external Web service taken from the xmethods.net site.

In this tutorial, you will: Learn how different technologies interact to make Web services work, wrap a simple inventory-control application as a Web service, test the Web service, browse the code for the Web services consumer, build a Web services client for an external Web service, test the external Web service, build a WSDL file, convert a WSDL file into a Web service

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Java technology is strongly recommended.

System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, you need the following:

• Rational Application Developer Version 6.0 (download the latest trial version) or Rational Web Developer Version 6.0 (download the latest trial version).
• Apache Tomcat Version 5.0. You can use Apache Tomcat Version 5.0 or later.

Duration

Under one hour

Formats

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