This project was realized as an assignment for the course CSCU9YW - Web Services at the University of Stirling. The system was created using SOAP (document/literal) to establish a connection between a service and a client, where the service fetches the contact's information from a database (which for this assignment was stored locally). The zip file contain both the service and the client projects.
The aim of this assignment is to create a web service that acts as a contacts database. You may use any web service technology you like: SOAP, REST based on javax (lab4), REST based on Jakarta EE, and REST based on Spring io. For REST services you may use URI parameters, XML or JSON for transferring data to/from the service. For SOAP you may use RPC or Document literal encoding. For SOAP and REST based on javax service and client should be provided. For Jakarta and Spring the service is expected together with a record of requests to exercise the service. Credit will be given for a basic web interface to interact with the service. In any case, a basic UI for the client is sufficient, the focus for this assignment is on the web service element.
The contact database service should store details of people in a java data structure such as a HashMap (or external database if you prefer). Each person’s detail should include name, firstname, address (street, town/city, postcode), and telephone number. You can assume that the telephone number is unique and thus can be used to identify a contact. The webservice should provide methods to retrieve, add, edit, and delete contacts. Advanced features may include interacting with a group of contacts (e.g. all contacts in a specific town, counts of edits of contacts etc). You may also try and may your web service more robust handling potential error cases (adding an already existing contact, deleting one which does not exist). Some credit will be available for such features.