Creation of a simple Web Service

It is important to understand what a webservice is, WSDL and how to create one so that you understand the orchestration of services.
Here you will learn how to create a simple web service that calculates the APR based on the FICO score.

What you will learn

1. Creation of Application and Project in JDeveloper
2. Creation of a simple WebService
3. Understand the WSDL
4. Test the webservice
5. Deploy the webservice

Steps to follow

• In JDeveloper, select "New Application" in "Application Navigator"
• To create the Application, enter the "Application Name", "Directory" as shown below

• To create the project, enter the "Project Name" and "Technologies" as shown below

• Finish the creation of the project
• Create a new Java Class as follows

• Enter the name of class as "CreditService" and accept the other defaults
• Declare the class to be a WebService

• Configure web.xml for this service. Select "Jave EE 1.5, with support for JAXWS Annotations" as the deployment platform.
• Create a getCreditRating() method and declare it as WebMethod

• Test as WebService

• The JDeveloper starts the Weblogic server, runs the webservice and launches the test analyzer. Enter the input and the service returns the output.

• TODO The WSDL is to be explained