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Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook

By : Hamidreza Sattari, Shameer Kunjumohamed
Book Image

Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook

By: Hamidreza Sattari, Shameer Kunjumohamed

Overview of this book

<p>Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services.<br /><br />Spring Web Services aims to facilitate contract-first SOAP service development, allowing for the creation of flexible web services using one of the many ways to manipulate XML payloads.<br /><br />This comprehensive guide -- which provides professional expertise on a variety of technical topics right from setting-up a contract-first Web-Service, creating client of a Web-Service to serialization, monitoring, testing and security using Spring-WS -- helps you enhance your skills in Spring Web Services.<br /><br />Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook includes a wide variety of recipes that covers most important topics used in real-world applications. It is a well-rounded guide covering a lot of ground in the Spring Web Services domain using systematic arranged chapters and focused recipes.<br /><br />The book begins with setting up a contract first Web Service over various protocols such as JMS, XMPP, and Email. The next chapter targets creating clients for SOAP Web Services. We then learn how to test and monitor the Web Service using tools like soapUI and TCPMon. Building on, logging, tracing and exception handling are detailed in the subsequent chapter. The book then covers marshalling and unmarshalling using different technologies like JAXB2, XMLBeans, JibX, XStream, MooseXML etc. Securing WebServices through authentication, authorization, encryption and decryption and digital signature using Spring-WS features based on XWSS and WSS4J Libraries is outlined in the next chapter two chapters. The book then tackles development of RESTful Web Services. Finally, Setting up Web Services using Spring Remoting based on various technologies like HTTP , RMI, JMS, JAXWS and a Web Service using Apache CXF on JAX-WS front-end are explained.<br /><br />This book will help relatively new developers in accelerating their learning process and experienced developers in expanding their skills sets of Spring Web Services.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a WS Client for the Spring RESTful Web-Service using Spring template classes


Spring provides varieties of template classes that simplify many complexities using different technologies. For example, WebServiceTemplate is for calling a SOAP-based Web-Service, and JmsTemplate is for sending/receiving JMS messages. Spring also has the RestTemplate to simplify the interaction with RESTful Web-Services.

To use RestTemplate:

  • Create an instance of RestTemplate (can be done using the @Autowired feature)

  • Configure one-to-many message converters (as described in the previous recipe)

  • Call methods of RestTemplate to call a RESTful Web-Service and get a response back

In this recipe, we will learn to consume a RESTful Web-Service using the RestTemplate. This recipe uses the third recipe of this chapter, Setting up a Spring RESTful Web-Service using HTTP Message Conversion, as the RESTful Web-Service.

Getting ready

In this recipe, the project's name is LiveRestaurant_R-9.2-Client (LiveRestaurant_R...