Tutorial: CICS Web Service Provider from JSON, RESTful

Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments (local development) only.

In this tutorial, you use the top-down method to create a RESTful Web service provider that receives POST and GET requests. These requests are sent to a wrapper program that passes the requests on to the filmsREST program. The filmsREST program creates a film record on a POST request, and returns a film record on a GET request.

Prerequisite

Review the Assumptions and Before you begin a CICS Web services tutorial sections in the Tutorials: CICS Web Services topic to be sure you have your environment configured properly.

Sequence

To complete this tutorial, progress through these topics in the order presented here. The bottom of each topic provides Next topic and Previous topic navigational links to help you proceed in the proper sequence:

  1. Set Up the filmsREST Project
    Guides you through the process of using the provided CICS Web services demonstration files to import the filmsREST project used in this tutorial.
  2. Generate filmsREST Web Service Components
    Provides step-by-step instructions that guide you through the process of generating all components of the filmsREST RESTful JSON CICS Web service provider.
  3. Add Operation Logic to filmREST.cbl
    Guides you through the process of adding logic to the filmREST.cbl program to process POST and GET requests.
  4. Set Up the CWSREST Enterprise Server Region
    Guides you through the process of creating and configuring the CWSREST enterprise server region, and verifying the resources required to run the RESTful JSON CICS Web service provider.
  5. Test the films Web Service Provider
    Provides instructions and the code required to send a JSON POST and a JSON GET request to test the films Web service provider.
Parent topic: Tutorials: CICS Web Services
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Tutorials: CICS Web Services