Test 807: Web Services Development for IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1

Section 1 - Architecture and Core Concepts (22%)

1. Identify suitable opportunities to apply Web services
2. Select appropriate Web services features for effective interoperability according to WS-I (Web Services Interoperability)
3. Evaluate performance considerations and trade-offs when implementing Web services
4. Describe the core features of WSDL, UDDI and SOAP
5. Choose the appropriate WSDL style
6. Select the appropriate Web service transport
7. Select appropriate encodings and serialization models for Web service messages
8. Select strategies and mechanisms for error handling including SOAP Faults
9. Use Web services transactions
10. Understand the role of Web services in SOA

Section 2 - Develop Web Services (22%)

1. Use appropriate wizards and command line tools to create Web services
2. Read and interpret WSDL and SOAP
3. Create and edit a WSDL document with the WSDL editor
4. Create a top-down Web service from a WSDL document
5. Create a bottom-up Web service from a Java bean, EJB or DADX file
6. Use binary data and/or attachments in Web services

Section 3 - Consume Web Services (9%)

1. Understand which type of client to implement (dynamic proxy, static stub-based or Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII))
2. Develop a dynamic proxy client
3. Develop a static stub-based client
4. Use the IBM Rational Application Developer V7 wizard to create a Web service interface to a User Defined Function

Section 4 - Package, Deploy, and Publish (16%)

1. Package Web services using IBM Rational Application Developer V7
2. Deploy Web services to a IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1
3. Use Web Services Explorer to navigate or publish to UDDI registry
4. Understand and modify Web service and client deployment descriptors
5. Add transports using Create Router Modules wizard
6. Use a service integration bus to expose Web services
7. Understand and configure Web service caching

Section 5 - Testing and Validation (9%)

1. Effectively test a Web service using a generated test client and the Universal Test Client
2. Validate WS-I compliance levels
3. Use the TCP/IP Monitor to test and debug Web services
4. Test applications using the Web Services Explorer

Section 6 - Security (11%)

1. Configure Web services for WS-Security
2. Use digital signatures for authorization and authentication
3. Use digital encryption for confidentiality
4. Configure server-side and client-side role-based security
5. Use message-level and/or transport-level security

Section 7 - Web Services and Java (11%)

1. Understand and apply mapping between Java and WSDL as defined by JAX-RPC
2. Use the JAX-RPC API
3. Understand the SAAJ API
4. Understand and develop Web services as defined by JSR921