WS is a server running 🔌 on a computer device, listening 👂 for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, Images), and creating web applications services, which serve in solving specific domain problems over the web (www, internet, HTTP).
- The purpuse is to create an application to search a given book.
- Show its rating.
- Must use Web service.
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Turn on your Xampp. 🔛
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Create new database and name it "bookdb" then import the sql file . 💾
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Open a cmd window and type :
* " cd projectpath\BookWebService\BookClient\src\ " , * then " wsimport -Xnocompile http://localhost:8585/BookWS?wsdl " in order to generate the stub. -
Execute the class BookService.java to deploy the service.
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Execute the class BookClient.java.
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When the interface of our app appears, the user types the title of book to search for, then clicks into the search icon. 🔎
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User can like 👍 or dislike 👎 any searched book.
| Generating The Stub From The CMD | Result |
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| Searching a book |
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To understand more the principle of web services, don't hesitate to watch this video which helped us a lot in our work 😉.
- NetBeans IDE 8.2
- JDK 8
- Jfoenix 8.0.1
- controlsfx 9.0.0
- mysql connector java 5.1.42