Tutorial: REST Service Interface

Walks you through the process of defining a Representational State Transfer (REST) service interface using the Interface Mapping Toolkit (IMTK), deploying it to an enterprise server instance, and generating and running a client to access it.

In this tutorial, you walk through the steps required to define a service interface using the Interface Mapping Toolkit (IMTK), deploy it to an enterprise server instance, and generate and run a client to access it.

Complete this tutorial by following the instructions in the following topics in the order listed here:

  1. Demonstration Application
    Describes the Schedule demo application used in this tutorial.
  2. Create a Project
    Walks you through the process of creating an Enterprise Developer project for the ScheduleDemo application and its service interface.
  3. Create a Service Interface
    Walks you through the process of creating a service interface for the ScheduleDemo application.
  4. Define Service Interface Operations
    Walks you through the process of defining the service interface details for the ScheduleDemo application.
  5. Create and Configure ESREST
    Walks you through the process of creating and configuring an enterprise server instance, ESREST, to use in this tutorial.
  6. Deploy a Service Interface
    Walks you through the steps required to associate an enterprise server instance with your project, build the project, set deployment properties, deploy the service interface, and verify the deployment results.
  7. Generate Clients
    Walks you through the process of setting client generation properties, generating console and WPF clients for the MakeCheckAppt service interface, and deploying the WPF client to your enterprise server instance.
  8. Register the Proxy Library
    Walks you through the process of registering the generated proxy library file.
  9. Run the WPF Client
    Walks you through the process of running the generated WPF client to access the new service.
Parent topic: Tutorials: Interface Mapping Toolkit