o Categorization of Web services standards
o Core standards
o Description and discovery
o Messaging
o Management
o Business processes
o Transactions
o Security
o User experience
o J2EE 1.4 and Java JSRs
o Web services organizations and groups
o Internet Engineering Task Force
o Java Community Process
o OASIS
o World Wide Web Consortium
o Web Services Interoperability Organization
o UDDI
o Companies working on Web services
o IBM
o Microsoft
o Vertical industry standards organizations

o The three pillars of SOAP
o Overall message format: Envelope with header and body
o Encoding rules
o RPC representation
o SOAP elements
o Namespaces
o URN
o SOAP envelope
o Headers
o Body
o Error handling
o Advanced topics
o Data model
o Mappings
o Communication styles
o Encodings
o Messaging modes
o Implementations
o SOAP implementation general architecture
o Apache SOAP 2.3 implementation
o Apache Axis
o WebSphere Web services engine
o Microsoft SOAP Toolkit
o Other toolkits and server implementations

o WSDL document
o WSDL document anatomy
o WSDL definition
o Types
o Messages
o Port types
o Bindings
o Service definition
o Port definition
o WSDL bindings
o SOAP binding
o HTTP binding
o MIME binding
o WSDL API

o Terminology: JAX-RPC and JSR 101
o JAX-RPC basics
o JAX-RPC client
o JAX-RPC client programming styles
o Static stub
o Dynamic proxy
o Dynamic invocation interface (DII)
o Which style to use
o Managed and unmanaged JAX-RPC clients
o JAX-RPC specification details
o Data type mapping: XML to Java, Java to XML

o Web services for J2EE overview
o Client programming model
o Client concepts
o Packaging
o Roles
o Server programming model
o Server concepts
o Packaging
o Roles
o Transactions
o Handlers
o Security
o WSEE implementations in WebSphere
o SOAP over HTTP
o SOAP over JMS

o UDDI overview
o Static versus dynamic Web services
o UDDI registry structure
o Interactions with UDDI
o New features in UDDI Version 3
o Keys assigned by publisher
o Human-friendly URI-based keys
o Complex registry topologies
o Advanced security features
o Policies
o Data model updates
o Extended inquiry API
o Subscription API
o Registry management
o UDDI support in WebSphere Application Server

o WS-Inspection document
o WS-Inspection document anatomy
o WS-Inspection and UDDI relationship
o WS-Inspection definition
o Services
o Links
o WS-Inspection bindings
o WSDL binding
o UDDI binding
o WS-Inspection document publishing
o WS-Inspection examples
o WS-Inspection API

o Security overview
o Web services security exposures
o WS-Security
o Evolution of the WS-Security specification
o WS-Security support in WebSphere Application Server
o WS-Security road map
o When to use WS-Security
o Example of WS-Security
o Authentication
o Integrity
o Confidentiality
o Transport-level security
o SOAP/HTTP transport-level security
o When to use transport-level security

o Web Services Interoperability Organization
o WS-I Basic Profile V1.1 and Simple SOAP Binding Profile V1.0
o WS-I Attachments Profile V1.0
o WS-I tools
o WS-I conformance claims
o WebSphere interoperability
o Interoperability with .NET
o RPC/literal WSDL
o WS-I conformance claims

o Service-oriented architecture
o Enterprise service bus
o Web services versus service-oriented architectures
o Web services protocol stack
o Message exchange patterns
o One-way
o Asynchronous two-way
o Request-response
o Workflow-oriented
o Publish-subscribe
o Composite
o SOAP processing model
o Web service gateways

o Generic best practices
o Be WS-I compliant
o Use simple data types
o Avoid nillable primitives
o Avoid fine-grained Web services
o Avoid Web services for intra-application communication
o Use short attribute, property, and tag names
o Avoid deep nesting of XML structures
o Apply common sense (also known as being defensive)
o WebSphere Application Server best practices
o Use the WebSphere Web services engine
o Use caching of Web services as provided by the platform

o WebSphere Application Server Version 6
o What is new in WebSphere Application Server Version 6
o Rational software development products
o Rational Web Developer for WebSphere Software Version 6
o Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software Version 6
o Rational Software Architect
o WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5.1
o WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer Version 5.1.2
o Web services support in Rational Application Developer
o Web services tooling
o Web services runtime environments
o Web services configuration settings
o Web services preferences

o Build phase
o Deploy phase
o Run phase
o Manage phase
o Building a new Web service
o Bottom-up
o Top-down
o Composing a Web service
o Types of Web services implementation
o Building a new Web service client
o Static client
o Dynamic client with known service type
o Dynamic client with unknown service type
o Types of client implementations

o Selected scenarios
o Preparation
o Creating a Web service from a JavaBean
o Web Service wizard
o Generated files
o Testing the Web service
o Creating Web service clients
o Stand-alone Java client
o Web JavaServer Faces client
o Creating a Web service from a session bean
o Running the Web Service wizard
o Generated code
o Running clients against the EJB Web service
o Creating a Web service top-down from WSDL
o Creating the skeleton JavaBean
o Implementing the JavaBean skeleton Web service
o Creating a composed Web service
o Web services and JMS binding
o Creating an EJB router project
o Running the Web Service wizard
o Creating a J2EE application client for SOAP over JMS
o Generating WSDL from Java

o Testing Web services
o Testing modes
o Testing approaches
o Web Services Explorer
o Starting the Web Services Explorer
o Working with the Web Services Explorer
o Web services sample test JSPs
o Generating client-side code
o Testing with test client JSPs
o Universal Test Client
o Starting the Universal Test Client
o Testing a Web service with the Universal Test Client
o Testing an EJB with the Universal Test Client
o Web services component test
o Creating a Web service component test
o Monitoring Web service requests
o TCP/IP Monitor
o Defining a TCP/IP Monitor configuration
o TCP/IP Monitor view
o Monitoring one server
o WebSphere Application Server TCP/IP Monitor
o Starting tcpmon

o WebSphere Application Server general concepts
o Administration basics
o WebSphere Application Server topology building blocks
o Upgrading from Version 5
o Administrative console
o Enterprise application deployment
o Configuring the server with a data source
o Installing an enterprise application
o Regenerating the HTTP server plug-in
o Starting and stopping enterprise applications
o Web services deployment in WebSphere environment
o Web services enabling with the SoapEarEnabler tool
o Running the applications against the real server
o Running a stand-alone client against the real server

o Installation planning
o WebSphere Application Server Version 6.0 requirements
o Installing WebSphere Application Server V6.0
o Installing IBM HTTP Server
o Installing the Web server plug-ins
o Installing Rational Application Developer V6.0
o Installing fixes
o Installing the Agent Controller
o Setting up Rational Application Developer
o Starting Application Developer
o Starting the WebSphere Application Server V6.0 test environment
o Configuring Application Developer
o WebSphere Application Server profiles
o Multiple profiles for Application Developer
o Creating a profile for the Application Developer test environment
o Using the new server in Application Developer
o Using a remote server
o Installing the sample code