A guide to understanding, accessing, and writing a RESTful web service. SOAP web services are mentioned as well.
This course walks the student through general web service concepts, then focuses on RESTful web services. We will write both a service and clients, process JSON and XML, and test using cURL.

This course covers the following topics:

Web Service Concepts
JAX-RS
Writing Java clients
XML/JSON
The xjc Schema Compiler
Using cURL
Writing a Web Service
SSL
Authentication & Authorization
JavaFX to REST Example
Apache Tomcat
The application server used for deployment is GlassFish since GF is the reference implementation for Java EE.