Outline of Mastering JAX-RS REST Web Services and AJAX Clients - WebSphere 8.5 / Eclipse Training

Chapter 1. REST Services

• Many Flavors of Services
• Understanding REST
• Principles of RESTful Services
• REST Resource Examples
• SOAP Equivalent Examples
• REST vs SOAP Communication
• More REST vs SOAP
• REST vs SOAP Summary
• Famous RESTful Services
• Additional Resources
• Summary

Chapter 2. Designing a RESTful Service

• Introduction
• The Design Methodology
• Ingredients of a Service Operation Interface
• What Constitutes a REST Resource
• Resource Identifiers
• MIME types
• HTTP Methods
• Example Operation Interface Document
• Summary

Chapter 3. Introduction to JAX-RS

• The JAX-RS Specification
• The Resource Class
• A Bunch of Annotations
• @Path
• More Complex Paths
• Using Path Parameters
• HTTP Binding
• web.xml
• Summary

Chapter 4. JAX-RS Data Injection

• Sources for Injected Data
• Path Parameters
• Query Parameters
• HTML Form Input
• Cookies
• Matrix Parameters
• Http Headers
• Default Values
• Parameter Conversion
• Custom Types
• Summary

Chapter 5. JAX-RS Content Types

• Internet Media Types
• Use of Media Type in REST
• The @Consumes Annotation
• Content Negotiation
• The @Produces Annotation
• The MediaType Class
• JAXB
• Dynamic Content Negotiation
• Summary

Chapter 6. REST vs. SOAP

• Defining REST
• The Six REST Architectural Style Constraints
• The Four REST Interface Constraints
• Hypermedia Examples
• Defining SOAP
• RPC SOAP vs. REST
• Document SOAP vs. REST
• Where SOAP Shines
• Where REST Shines
• Selecting an Appropriate Solution
• Summary

Chapter 7. Building Complex JAX-RS Responses

• HTTP Response Status Codes
• Introduction to the JAX-RS Response Class
• Using the Response and Response.ResponseBuilder Classes
• Example: Conditional HTTP GET
• Returning Cookies
• Cookies in Response Headers
• Reading Cookies
• Returning an Exception
• ExceptionMappers
• Summary

Chapter 8. Clients of JAX-RS Services

• Java Web Service Clients
• Apache HttpClient
• More Apache HttpClient Code
• JAX-RS Implementation Client Libraries
• RESTEasy Example
• HATEOAS
• Building Links with UriBuilder and UriInfo
• Using Atom Links for State Transitions
• WADL
• Summary

Chapter 9. Introduction to AJAX

• What is AJAX?
• A Simple Example
• The Old Way
• The AJAX Way
• Two Key Aspects of AJAX
• What are the Advantages of the AJAX Approach?
• AJAX Technologies
• The Basic AJAX API
• Creating the XMLHttpRequest Object
• The XMLHttpRequest Object Basics
• Complete Example
• The Timeline
• Review Questions
• Review Answers

Chapter 10. JavaScript DOM API

• What is DOM?
• Element Hierarchy
• DOM Standardization
• The Document Object
• Nodes and Elements
• The Element Object
• Element Event Handlers
• The window Object
• The Frame Object
• The History Object
• Summary

Chapter 11. AJAX API Details

• The Request Object
• Creating the Request Object
• Properties of the Request Object
• Methods of the Request Object
• Simple GET Example
• Making a POST Request
• Making Concurrent Requests
• Memory Leak With Inner Function
• A POST Utility Function
• Mozilla XmlHttpRequest Extensions
• IE Microsoft.XMLHTTP Extensions
• Ajax Caching
• Control Cache Duration
• Advanced Cache Control
• Summary

Chapter 12. Communication With Server - Basic

• Introduction
• Application Layer Protocol
• Choosing a Data Format
• Plain HTML Snippet
• XML Document
• XML Document – Server Side
• Example: Build DOM Document in Java
• Example: Write DOM Document in HTTP Reply
• Example: The Servlet
• C#: Create a XML DOM Document
• C#: Output XML in HTTP Reply
• XML Document - Client Side
• DOM API Summary
• DOM API – The Document Object
• DOM API – The Element Object
• Body Text of an Element
• Setting Body Text
• Displaying Body Text
• Using XML As Request Data
• Creating a New DOM Document
• Serializing DOM Document as Text
• Posting an XML Document
• Processing the Posted XML From a Servlet
• Summary

Chapter 13. Communication With Server - JSON

• Introduction
• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• JSON Syntax
• How Does JSON Based Communication Work?
• JSON API in HTML5
• How Does JSON Based Communication Work?
• JSON: Server Side
• JSON: Client Side
• Working With Arrays
• Advanced JSONObject Methods
• Advanced JSONArray Methods
• Summary

Chapter 14. Securing JAX-RS Services

• HTTP Basic Authentication
• Example Client
• The WWW-Authenticate and Authorization Headers
• Java EE Security Roles
• Integration with Web Container Security
• Java EE Security Annotations
• SecurityContext
• Restrictions Based on Content Type
• Summary