Summary: Advanced Web Services Tutorial

This topic lists the ideas this tutorial introduced, along with links to topics for more information. You may also find it useful to look at the following:

• Tutorial: Getting Started describes the Workshop for WebLogic interface and discusses navigation, common tasks and documentation resources.
• Tutorial: Web Service contains a simple example of creating a web service and a simple custom control.
• Tutorial: Accessing a Database from a Web Application describes how to integrate database operations into web applications using controls.

Concepts and Tasks Introduced in This Tutorial

• A control is a Java object that provides standardized access to resources or encapsulated business logic. Controls use Java 5 metadata annotations for more convenient configuration. Controls in Workshop for WebLogic are based on the Beehive open souce framework, described in detail at Working with Beehive Controls.
• The easiest way to access a web service from an application is to create a control for the web service. Workshop for WebLogic can use the WSDL file for a web service to automatically create a control.
• Once a control has been created, you can access a web service's operations through simple method calls. The methods exchange SOAP messages with the web service to perform the requested operations.

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