Welcome to the WebSphere Web Services blog!
Welcome to the WebSphere Web Services blog! We've created this space to discuss topics related to web services in general with you. Specifically, this blog will cover both the traditional SOAP-based...
View ArticleApache Wink 0.1 Goes Live!
After almost 2 months of being in the Apache Incubator, the Apache Wink team is excited to announce that we have published the first release of our JAX-RS-based REST runtime.Wink was started as a joint...
View ArticleWeb Services Performance Tidbits
My team was recently working with a customer on their web services application and we wanted to document a few things we learned during the engagement.Network bottlenecksIn our IBM labs, when we...
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Asserting an Identity from JAX-RPC Web Services to WebSphere
I've received similar questions from multiple customers all about asserting identity on Web Services requests within JAX-RPC. Therefore, let me talk a bit about how this can be done with the support in...
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EJB 3.0 and JAX-WS Web Services
I was in a discussion with a number of my colleagues yesterday and the topic came up of using EJB 3.0 with JAX-WS web services. Essentially, they weren't sure if the @EJB annotation (which injected a...
View ArticleTips on optimizing your JAX-RPC web services client
The new JAX-WS engine in WebSphere offers a lot of new capabilities, such as SOAP 1.2 support, MTOM-based attachments and Reliable Messaging. It also performs better in general. For new development...
View ArticleSAML for Web Services is now available with WebSphere 7.0.0.7
You probably have read the announcement letter on the XML Feature Pack, SCA Refresh, and SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) for Web Services support coming to WebSphere 7.0.I would like to give...
View ArticleApache Wink 1.0 in WebSphere Application Server
I'm glad to see that Apache Wink has reached it's 1.0 status and can be officially downloaded. As I've seen various people deploy Apache Wink to WebSphere, I've had to point out a few things that are...
View ArticleDemonstration of the SAML Token support in v7.0.0.7
I spent some time over the weekend recording a demo of a scenario which shows how to use our SAML support that shipped as part of v7.0.0.7 and was introduced on this blog last week. The demonstration...
View ArticleWeb Services and Authorization
I've gotten involved in some discussions with customers asking questions about web services and authorization. In an attempt to clear up some of the ambiguities, I decided to start with going back to...
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Which Identity is used for Authorization
In one of my recent discussions, I came across a question on which identity is used for authorization checks in WebSphere for SOAP over HTTP web services. For the background of web services...
View ArticleWebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.7 and JAXB performance improvements
As Andrew Spyker posted here, the 7.0.0.7 improvements to JAXB will help both JAX-RS and JAX-WS services when enabled. These were enabled via tighter integration with our XML parser shipped in...
View ArticlePaper to provide an overview of SAML and support in 7.0.0.7
I hope you found the SAML demo video from Greg useful. My team has put together a paper to provide an overview of the SAML technology introduced in WebSphere 7.0.0.7.The paper is available for download...
View ArticleUseful JAX-RS links for testing and handling error conditions
There's some interesting articles that Dave Artus has been writing as he becomes more proficient with Apache Wink. He has a great (in-depth) detailed article about using JMock to test JAX-RS services...
View ArticleHandling JSON arrays and objects
Recently I was using the Apache Wink client-side capabilities to interface with the RESTful APIs of several popular social media sites like Twitter and bit.ly, and I ran into an interesting problem...
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RAD 7.5.5 and Web Services support
Happy New Year!Just before the holidays, RAD 7.5.5 was introduced which includes some additions for web services. Details can be found here. These additions enhance some of the capabilities that...
View ArticleTwo new developerWorks articles on WS-RM and WS-Addressing
There are two new interesting developerWorks articles by some of my IBM colleagues.The first one is about how to apply WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) to a JAX-WS Web Services. WebSphere introduced WS-RM...
View ArticleWeb Services Caching using DynaCache
Recently, we've been working with customers on using DynaCache to cache web services responses on the server side (to improve throughput and load on a server for common requests). Our DynaCache expert...
View ArticleJAX-RS support now exists in WebSphere Application Server!
I'm pleased to see that WebSphere released formal support for JAX-RS 1.0 (plus more) via an upgrade to the Web 2.0 Feature Pack today. Support also includes JSON support and support for a client API....
View ArticleHow to set timeout for JAX-WS client invocations programmatically in WebSphere
A few of my teammates find it difficult to get this working properly. I hope this write-up and example code below would help you. It's actually not too hard.What can I adjust?There are three timeouts...
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