Tutorial: CICS Web Service Provider from JSON, RESTful

In this tutorial, you use the top-down method to create a RESTful Web service provider that receives GET and PUT requests. These requests are sent to a wrapper program that passes the requests on to the Book program. The Book program returns a book record on a GET request, and creates a new book record on a PUT 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 BookREST Project
    Guides you through the process of using the provided CICS Web services demonstration files to create the BookREST project used in this tutorial.
  2. Generate BookREST Web Service Components
    Provides step-by-step instructions that guide you through the process of generating all components of the BookREST RESTful JSON CICS Web service provider.
  3. Add Operation Logic to BookREST
    Guides you through the process of adding logic to the BookREST program to process GET and PUT requests, and then building the project in Visual Studio.
  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 Book Web Service Provider
    Provides instructions and the code required to send a JSON GET request to test the Book Web service provider.
Parent topic: Tutorials: CICS Web Services
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Tutorials: CICS Web Services