Spring Remoting and Webservices

Introduction 30m 55s

An overview of the course. For anyone who didn't do the Spring Fundamentals course, we spend about 20 minutes walking through the architecture of the Spring code.

Part 1: Traditional Remoting - Overview 36m 7s

What is remoting? Why is remoting needed? We use Spring to build our first RMI service. Pros and Cons of RMI.

RMI on the Client 49m 16s

In each part of the course we learn about both the server side and the client side.

Alternatives to RMI - Hessian, Burlap and HttpInvoker 36m 36s

RMI suffers from firewall problems. Spring provides three alternatives - we prefer the HttpInvoker and we'll explain why.

RMI Practical 24m 25s

To round off this first part, a full practical on RMI where you apply what you've learned to the rest of the system.

Part 2: SOAP Webservices 54m 29s

After an overview of SOAP, a JAX-WS tutorial to see how standard Java supports SOAP.

Spring and SOAP 31m 30s

How does Spring support SOAP?

Spring SOAP Clients 34m 43s

You can write a SOAP client without Spring, but you might like their support.

Deploying SOAP to Tomcat 41m 26s

This is a bit of a technical chapter with nothing very exciting to learn. But part of the course is to tackle real world problems, and it is awkward running a Spring SOAP application on a server.

Introducing Spring-WS 81m 56s

This is a side project to Spring, and it is intended for Contract-First development. What is that? And how to do it?

Spring-WS and JAXB 43m 18s

In Spring-WS, you get direct access to the converted XML. JAXB is a standard Java library that we'll use a lot on the course, so we see here how they work together.

More Spring-WS 36m 42s

We round off with further features of Spring-WS.

SOAP Practical 49m 6s

Again, we turn to a full practical where we'll deploy a full SOAP service.

Part 3: REST Warmup 28m 52s

As a prelude to part 3, we start by reviewing the HTTP Verbs. If you know these already, you can skip to the next chapter.

Introducing REST 18m 16s

What is REST? Is it a standard? We define REST using "4 core principles". In this chapter we explore the first two of these.

Representations and URIs 39m 12s

We'll start by building some REST representations and assigning them URIs.

REST Clients 31m 1s

Of course, we also need to be able to call our REST service, so we look at what a REST client might look like, both in Java and in Spring.

Content Negotiation 60m 42s

We'll learn how the HTTP headers contain information about the type of data the client would like to receive.

Error Handling 49m 16s

Learning the HTTP Status codes is important as a REST developer.

Client Side Errors 40m 57s

The RESTTemplate is a bit weak at detecting errors. We show how to extend the template to make it more robust.

Collections and Ranges 49m 10s

How to return representations of multiple objects.

Full HTTP Operations 62m 53s

The third of the four core principles of REST is that the HTTP Verbs should be wisely used.

Editing Conflicts (optional) 40m 25s

This advanced chapter shows how you can implement optimistic locking for PUT operations by returning HTTP 409.

Partial Updates with PATCH (optional) 29m 8s

PATCH is a new (proposed) HTTP Verb and can be used for partial updates. Its a good idea but client support is patchy (pun not intended).

HATEOAS 62m 39s

Perhaps the worst acronym in our industry, this hides an important concept that is slowly becoming more important in REST. We start with the basics...

More HATEOAS 45m 59s

... and then we expand to use more features, including the Spring HATEOAS plugin.

Validation 39m 26s

How to use standard Spring-MVC to trap for errors in the representations.

Practical Session 92m 23s

A major practical. Before starting, we talk about ISO8601 dates, and also why REST isn't CRUD.

Course Summary 6m 30s

Goodbye!