Level: Intermediate Tam T. Dinh (tamdinh@us.ibm.com), WebSphere System Verification Test, IBM
20 Nov 2006 Learn how to use Web services wizards in the WebSphere® Application Server Toolkit (AST) to create top-down Web services, generate the corresponding Web services client, and deploy the Web services application to WebSphere Application Server.
Prerequisites
You should have a basic knowledge of Web services and WebSphere Application Server v6.1.
System requirements
To work through this tutorial, you need the following software installed on your machine:
WebSphere Application Server Base Version 6.1
Windows machine with minimum of 1GB of RAM A WSDL file which can be extracted out of the sample WServiceApp.ear
Formats html, pdf
About this tutorial series
This series will demonstrate how to develop Web services and configure Web service security using WebSphere Application Server Toolkit version 6.1. Part 1 of the series shows you how to use Web services wizards in the WebSphere® Application Server Toolkit v6.1 to create top-down Web services, generate the corresponding Web services client, and deploy the application containing the Web services to IBM WebSphere Application Server. Part 2 will cover configuring Web services security.
Web services can be created using two methods: top-down and bottom-up development. Top-down Web services development involves creating a Web service from a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file. Bottom-up development involves creating a Web service from Enterprise JavaBeans™ components. Although bottom-up Web services development can be faster and easier, especially if you're new to Web services, the top-down approach is recommended because you can create a standard WSDL document that's platform-independent. Its services can then be interoperable with other vendors' products.
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