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Access IBM Workplace Collaboration Services using Web services

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Level: Intermediate

Rohit Sahasrabudhe (sahas@us.ibm.com), e-business Architect, IBM

15 Nov 2005

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IBM Workplace Collaboration Services (IWCS) provides collaborative services that can be used in your applications. These collaborative services are available to you via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Service Provider Interfaces (SPIs). A majority of these services are also available via Web Services. In this tutorial you will explore the steps required to access these collaborative services using Rational Application Developer to build your client applications. Two examples show you how to access two separate services exposed by IWCS server.

Objectives

At the completion of this tutorial, you will know how to use Rational Application Developer to access Web services exposed by the IBM Workplace Collaboration Services Server. Going through this tutorial won't make you an expert in all the Web services provided, but it will give you some background. You can then apply this knowledge with the details in the toolkit documentation to take advantage of these Web services in your applications. The toolkit comes with good documentation that includes both overview and in-depth descriptions. In this tutorial you will also learn how to use Rational Application Developer to minimize your coding efforts by using the Web Services Wizards to generate most of the code required to access these Web services.


Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for developers who want to understand how to use Web Services to simplify accessing the extension point of the IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. Users should have a basic background in Web Services and the Java Technology.


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Duration

Under two hours


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