Metro: Try Out Simple and Interoperable Web Services
LAB-3410

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:

Introduction to Metro
• 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

Metro Reliability
• 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

Metro Security
• 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.

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

Software requirements: Also please make sure to install the following software prior to coming to this lab:
• JDK 5.0 or 6
• NetBeans 6.0.1 with Web and Java EE pack
• GlassFish V2 UR1

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