This two-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop advanced distributed applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The workshop focuses on advanced features of Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 and message queuing.
Target Audience:
This workshop is intended for corporate or independent software vendor (ISV) application developers who have a desire to learn more about specific technology areas in Microsoft Windows application development.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, students must have:
Must have attended or studied Workshop 2548A, Core Distributed Applications or possess equivalent knowledge and skills.
Must be able to create Web services.
Must be able to write applications that use Web services.
Be able to send and receive messages by using Message Queuing
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Implement WSE 3.0 security and policy
Implement WSE 3.0 custom policy assertions
Handle large data transfer by using WSE 3.0
Implement WSE 3.0 SOAP messaging
Implement SOAP headers and extensions
Implement WSE 3.0 routing
Optimize and protect Microsoft Message Queuing client and server applications
Session 1: Implementing WSE 3.0 Security and Policy
This unit introduces Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0. It explains the Web service WS-* standards implemented by WSE and the WSE 3.0 architecture. The unit also shows how to protect Web services with WSE using policies, encryption, digital signing, and security credentials.
Lessons
What is WSE 3.0 Security?
Implementing WSE 3.0 Policies
Lab : Implementing WSE 3.0 Security and Policy
Exercise 1. Protecting a Web Service by Using X509 Certificates
Exercise 2. Using a WSE 3.0 Policy from a Web Service Client
Exercise 3. Protecting a Web Service by Using Username Tokens
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Protect a Web service by encrypting data with X509 certificates
This unit introduces the WSE 3.0 custom policy assertion mechanism. It shows the architecture of the custom policy assertions in WSE 3.0 and how to use custom policy assertions in a Web service.
Exercise 1. Configuring a Web Service to Use a WSE 3.0 Custom Policy Assertion
Exercise 2. Configuring a Client Application to Use a WSE 3.0 Custom Policy Assertion
Exercise 3. Examining the WSE 3.0 Custom Policy Assertion
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Configure a Web Service to use a WSE 3.0 custom policy assertion
Configure a client application to use a WSE 3.0 custom policy assertion
Verify the operation of a WSE 3.0 custom policy assertion
Session 3: Handling Large Data Transfer by Using WSE 3.0
This unit describes how to send and receive large files by using WSE 3.0. It discusses the Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) protocol, how to send and receive files, and how to handle bulky data in binary format in SOAP messages.
Lessons
What is the Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)?
How to Use MTOM with WSE 3.0
Lab : Handling Large Data Transfers with WSE 3.0
Exercise 1. Handling Large Data Transfer with WSE 3.0
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Implement large data transfers by using WSE 3.0.
Session 4: Implementing WSE 3.0 SOAP Messaging
This unit describes how to implement SOAP messaging. It describes how to send and receive SOAP messages in Web services by using different sets of protocols.
Lessons
What is SOAP Messaging?
Sending and Receiving SOAP Messages
TCP and HTTP Messaging
Lab : Implementing WSE 3.0 SOAP Messaging
Exercise 1. Creating a SOAP Web Service using the TCP Protocol
Exercise 2. Sending and Receiving SOAP Messages
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create a Web service that uses the TCP protocol
Send and receive SOAP messages by using the TCP protocol
Session 5: Implementing SOAP Headers and Extensions
This unit describes SOAP headers and extensions. It explains what a SOAP header is, and how a Web service processes a SOAP extension.
Lessons
What is a SOAP Header?
What is a SOAP Extension?
Lab : Implementing SOAP Headers and Extensions
Exercise 1. Implementing a SOAP Header
Exercise 2. Implementing SOAP Extensions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Implement and use a SOAP header in a Web service
Implement and use a SOAP extension in a Web service
Session 6: Implementing WSE 3.0 Routing
This unit discusses the routing mechanisms supported in WSE 3.0. It explains how to route Web method calls and how to implement content-based routing.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Route Web method calls to a Web server by using WSE 3.0.
Implement content-based routing with WSE 3.0
Session 7: Optimizing and Protecting Message Queuing
This unit discusses techniques for improving the security and optimizing the performance of applications that use the queuing mechanisms. It also describes how to verify whether messages posted to a queue are delivered successfully and how to correlate a message reply posted to a queue with the original message.
Lessons
How to Reduce Message Queue Bottlenecks
How to Verify Message Delivery
How to Correlate Message Replies
How to Use Encryption and Authentication in Message Queues
Lab : Optimizing and Protecting Message Queuing
Exercise 1. Encrypting and Authenticating Messages
