Tutorial: Your First Web Service

This tutorial provides a tour of the major features of WebLogic Workshop, a visual development environment for building web services. Through the tutorial, you build a web service called Investigate, which is designed to receive client requests for a credit report, perform the required research and calculation, and return the report. The tutorial takes a little over three hours to complete.

Tutorial Goals

Through this tutorial, you will learn how to create and test a web service with WebLogic Workshop. Along the way, you will also learn how to create methods that expose a service's functionality, become acquainted with WebLogic Workshop's support for asynchronous communication and loose coupling, and learn about its controls to speed the design process.

Tutorial Overview

The Investigate web service you will build with this tutorial is designed to collect credit-related information about the applicant, compute a credit worthiness score and rating, then return the combined information to the client.

There are six actors in this scenario:

This tutorial guides you through the process of adding functionality in increments, and shows you how to test your web service as you build it.

Steps in This Tutorial

To begin the tutorial, see Step 1: Begin the Investigate Web Service.

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