Chapter 17Creating RESTful and SOAP Web Services

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • What are web services?
  • How do you use Spring MVC to configure RESTful web services?
  • How to test your web service endpoints
  • How best to utilize Spring Web Services for SOAP

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at http://www.wrox.com/go/projavaforwebapps on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

  • Web-Service Project
  • Customer-Support-v14 Project

NEW MAVEN DEPENDENCIES FOR THIS CHAPTER

In addition to the Maven dependencies introduced in previous chapters, you also need the following Maven dependencies:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.2.RELEASE</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

UNDERSTANDING WEB SERVICES

Creating web services for your applications is a task that you will inevitably face in the future, if you haven’t already. This is because web services provide a way for non-human clients to interact with your web application. Usually there is still a human interacting with a web service client, but at this stage that doesn’t matter. You aren’t creating clients that use web services in this chapter — just web services. (In the section “Creating an OAuth Client Application” of Chapter 28, you use Spring Framework tools to create a web service client.)

Typically to create a web service, you need a way to allow non-human ...

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