Building and
LAB-8420LT

This hands-on lab will illustrate the interaction between SOAP and RESTful web services and other Web 2.0 technologies. Step by step, you will be walked through the building and consumption of SOAP and RESTful web services. The advantages of these services will be discussed and the differences between them will be highlighted. The tooling provided by NetBeans IDE 6.0 will be used throughout. The goal is to learn the two different approaches and how they can coexist in your Web 2.0 application.

You will first examine and deploy an EJB module with a session bean that is responsible for retrieving images. You will then create a Web application and implement a traditional SOAP-based web service and a RESTful web service that delegate to the session bean to retrieve the images. Finally, you will create a client web application that can consume both types of web services. In the end, you will have a web application that displays images retrieved from the EJB module via the two different web service strategies that you will have become familiar with throughout the lab. As a bonus, you will also get to try out a rapid technique to build client application written in JavaScript, illustrating how to consume RESTful web services in a language other than the Java programing language.

Please bring your laptops as there will be no machines provided for this lab.

System Requirements:
• Supported OS: Solaris, Linux, Windows
• Memory Requirement: 512M minimum, 1G recommended
• Free Disk Space: 500M

Software Requirements:

• JDK 6
• INetbeans DE 6.1

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