Kathy Chan

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Eclipse WTP Web Service Tools

• Kathy Chan
• IBM Rational Software
• WTP Committer
• kathy_at_ca.ibm.com

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Contents

• Overview of WTP
• Web Services tools in WTP
• Whats new in Web services tools in WTP 1.5
• Demo
• The future
• References

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WTP Project Overview

• WTP provides tools for Java Web application
  development
• Tools for application developers
• Platform for tool developers
• Subprojects focus on industry standards
• Web Standard Tools IETF, W3C, OASIS, WS-I,
  ANSI, etc
• J2EE Standard Tools JCP

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WTP WST - Web Standard Tools

• Web Projects
• Web server control
• Structured Source Editing Framework
• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS
• XML
• DTD
• XSD
• Web services (WSDL, WS-I)
• Data access

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WTP JST - J2EE Standard Tools

• J2EE Projects
• J2EE server control
• Servlets
• JSPTM
• EJBTM
• Java Web services (JAX-RPC)

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Web Services Tools Overview

• WST Internet Proxy Preferences
• WST Environment / Command Frameworks
• WST Web Services
• Web Services Explorer
• Web Services Scenario and Finder Framework
• Web Services Ant tasks
• JST Web Services
• Extensible Web Services Wizardry
• Bottom-up, Top-down and Client scenarios
• End-to-end orchestration, driving J2EE and Server
  tools
• Extensions for Apache Axis

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WST Web Services

• Web Services Preferences
• Web Services Explorer
• Integrated Web application
• Publication, discovery and WSDL / XSD native
  testing
• Web Services extension points and provisional API
  for
• Discover
• Develop / Assemble / Deploy / Install / Run
• Test
• Publish
• Web Services Finder
• Web Services Ant tasks

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Web Services Explorer
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JST Web Services

• Web Services for Java (or other languages)
• Preferences
• Web service client wizardry
• Web service creation wizardry
• Extensions for Apache Axis on various servers
• JSR-109 handler configuration wizardry
• Java Web service finders
• Web services import / export

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Apache Axis Extension

• Representative extension to the Web services
  framework running on different servers
• As of WTP 1.5 Axis 1.3
• Scenarios
• Java class -gt Web service (bottom-up)
• WSDL -gt Java Web service (top-down)
• WSDL -gt Java client
• Axis emitter preference
• Pop-ups

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Wizardry
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Wizardry
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Whats New in WTP 1.5

• New Web Service wizards
• Combined first three pages into one page
• Scale to let user choose service and client
  settings
• Hyperlinks to change server, runtime, project
  EAR
• Axis Web service client supporting Java project
• Wizard WSDL validation (enabled by preference)
• Asynchronous server startup
• Supports skeleton merge (enabled by preference)
• Axis emitter preference page
• Web services Ant task
• Support handler creation on multiple
  service/client

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Whats New in WTP 1.5

• Web Services Explorer
• Removed IBM and Microsoft public registries from
  UDDI page
• Supports nils and attributes
• Categorized WSDLs
• Login support in UDDI page

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The Future

• Tools for New and Emerging Standards
• WS-I Basic Security Profile
• WS-Policy
• WS-Security Policy
• WS-Policy Attachments
• WS-Addressing
• WS-Reliable Messaging
• WS-Resource Framework
• WS-Lots n lots more!
• SOAP 1.2
• WSDL 2.0
• MTOM
• JSR 181 - Web Service Metadata
• JSR 224 - JAX-RPC 2.0
• JSR 235 - SDO

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References

• WTP home page http//www.eclipse.org/webtools/
• WTP download http//download.eclipse.org/webtools
  /downloads/
• WTP Web services tools tutorials
  http//www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/communit
  yresources.htmlws
• WS-I
• http//www.ws-i.org
• OASIS http//www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php
• Articles http//www.ibm.com/developerworks
• Email kathy_at_ca.ibm.com