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Build Web services with transport-level security using Rational Application Developer V7, Part 3: Configure HTTPS

Henry Cui (henrycui@ca.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM
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Henry Cui works with the Rational Application Developer service and support team at the IBM Toronto Lab. He's the subject matter expert of the support team in the Web services area where he's helped many customers resolve design, development, and migration issues with Web services. Henry coauthored the popular "Rational Application Developer V7 Programming Guide," one of the IBM Redbooks. You can reach Henry at henrycui@ca.ibm.com.

Summary:  Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part tutorial series showed you how to develop Web services and clients, and configure HTTP basic authentication. In this final installment, you create a self-signed certificate, key store, trust store, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) configuration using the IBM® WebSphere® Administrative Console. Then you configure HTTPS for your Web services and Web services client, and test HTTPS Web services from both a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) client and a stand-alone Java client.

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Date:  21 Feb 2008
Level:  Intermediate
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About this series

If you went through Part 1 of this tutorial series, then you've already:

  • Set up the servers.
  • Created a Java bean.
  • Created Web services.
  • Created a Web services Java EE client.
  • Created a Web Services stand-alone Java client.

Part 2 of this tutorial built upon Part 1, showing you how to configure HTTP basic authentication. In Part 2 you:

  • Enabled IBM WebSphere> Application Server security.
  • Configured HTTP basic authentication for the Web services provider.
  • Configured HTTP basic authentication for the Web services client using deployment descriptor.
  • Configured HTTP basic authentication for the Web services client programmatically.
  • Monitored the HTTP basic authentication information using the TCP/IP monitor.

This tutorial, Part 3 of the series, shows you how to configure HTTPS. In it, you learn how to:

  • Create the keystore, trust store, and certificate for the Web services provider.
  • Create an SSL configuration for the Web services provider.
  • Create a new Web container transport chain to use the new SSL configuration for the Web services provider.
  • Configure HTTPS for the Web service client.
  • Test HTTPS Web services from the Java EE client.
  • Test HTTPS Web services from the stand-alone Java client.

Prerequisites

You should have a basic understanding of Java technology and Web services to follow along with this tutorial.

System requirements

You need to install IBM Rational® Application Developer V7 with the latest fixes. (You can download a trial copy of Rational Application Developer from developerWorks if you haven't purchased the license.) If you're not sure if your instance Rational Application Developer V7 is at the latest level, you can go to the IBM Installation Manager and select Update Packages to see if new updates are available. At the time of this writing, the latest version of Rational Application Developer was 7.0.0.5. (Note: IBM generally releases a fix pack approximately every three months. You may see a newer version of Rational Application Developer at the time of installation. Each new version of Rational Application Developer contains large quantities of fixes. We recommend that you install the latest version to avoid encountering problems that have already been fixed.)

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