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.
Restriction: This topic applies only when the Enterprise Server feature is enabled.
Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments (local development) only.

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. Prerequisite
    Describes the setup required to complete this tutorial.
  2. Demonstration Application
    Describes the Schedule demo application used in this tutorial.
  3. Create a Project
    Walks you through the process of creating a Visual COBOL project for the ScheduleDemo application and its service interface.
  4. Create a Service Interface
    Walks you through the process of creating a service interface for the Schedule application.
  5. Define Service Interface Operations
    Walks you through the process of defining the service interface details for the ScheduleDemo application.
  6. Create and Configure ESREST
    Walks you through the process of creating and configuring an enterprise server instance, ESREST, to use in this tutorial.
  7. 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.
  8. Generate a COBOL Client
    Walks you through the process of generating a COBOL client for the MakeCheckAppt service interface.
  9. Run the MakeCheckAppt Web Service
    Walks you through the process of creating a debug configuration for your new service, and running the client application to access the service.
Parent topic: Tutorials: Interface Mapping Toolkit