A guide to understanding, accessing, and writing a RESTful web service. SOAP web services are mentioned as well.

This course walks the student through general web service concepts, then focuses on RESTful web services. We will write both a service and clients, process JSON and XML, and test using cURL.

This course covers the following topics:

Web Service Concepts
JAX-RS
Writing Java clients
XML/JSON
The xjc Schema Compiler
Using cURL
Writing a Web Service
SSL
Authentication & Authorization
JavaFX to REST Example
Apache Tomcat
The application server used for deployment is GlassFish since GF is the reference implementation for Java EE.

The environment used for this course includes:

Java SE 8
Java EE 7
Eclipse Luna
GlassFish
Apache Tomcat
Please see the free videos in my 'Java EE - The Basics' course for help with installing the above.