IBM WM875G - CICS V5 Advanced Application Development for SOA and Web Services

Course Outline

• Course introduction
• Introduction and overview of CICS web services
• Exercise: Testing CICS web services and tooling
• Web service design and development
• CICS as a web services provider
• Exercise: Building a web services provider application
• CICS as a web services provider with Rational Developer for System z
• Exercise: Building a web services provider application with Rational Developer for System z
• CICS as a web services requester
• Exercise: Building a web services requester application
• CICS application data and XML
• Exercise: Using CICS to parse and generate XML
• Web service pipeline handlers
• Exercise: Developing a message handler program
• WS-Security and WS-Trust
• Resource definition
• Exercise: Using the resources
• Interfacing with CICS web services
• Course summary

Objective

• Enable CICS applications to use web services from external providers
• Build web services provider or requester applications in CICS
• Use Rational Developer for System z to consume WSDL files, test CICS web services provider applications, and create CICS web services requester applications
• Describe the CICS Service Flow Modeler feature and its function within an SOA
• Use Rational Developer for System z to create a converter program and a WSBind file for use with CICS web services provider applications
• Use Rational Developer for System z to create top-down, bottom-up, and meet-in-the-middle web services
• Map and transform XML application data to language structures and language structures to XML data
• Describe pipeline processing and develop and test a message handler program
• Incorporate the appropriate security mechanisms in CICS for web services applications
• Describe how Java is used with web services
• Explain how a provider-mode and requester-mode Axis2 web service is used and deployed
• Describe how CICS applications can communicate by using the Request and Response processing capability of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) V1.1
• Describe how to use CICS support features for the HTTP V1.1 specification, including chunked transfer-coding, pipelining, and persistent connections
• Describe the service interfaces for HTTP processing, CICS Transaction Gateway, Cross Memory, WebSphere MQ, REST, Liberty Profile, JSON, and the Mobile Feature Pack and Service Component Architecture (SCA)