Course description: U2 Basic Extensions For Advanced Programmers

Skills taught 

• After completing this course, you should be able to:
• Implement and use the U2 Socket API
• Use CallHTTP to access a Web Server
• Explain how to utilize XML for export and import XML documents to the U2 data server
• Use the SOAP API in U2 Basic
• Use encryption in transit in U2 Basic
• Explain and use Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
• Use XML/DB Tool to map U2 data to and from XML documents
• Utilize U2 Web Services Developer to create and test Web Services using U2 Data Servers
• Write Basic programs to use consume U2 Web Services to obtain and write data to a U2 Server

Course outline 

• Using U2 socket API
• Define a socket
• Examine TCP/IP
• Describe socket interface
• Locate and decipher error codes
• Use socket functions

Using CallHTTP

• Describe the communication application layer
• Use functions to facilitate a call to a Web server
• Use CallHTTP to access a web server
• Create and submit a request

XML and U2

• Realize the importance of XML
• Define XML components
• Rules of XML documents
• Define the Document Object Model
• Produce XML documents from U2
• Receive XML documents to U2
• Use XPATH for navigating XML documents

SOAP and U2

• Define SOAP structure
• Define components of a SOAP message
• Construct a SOAP message
• Receive a SOAP response

Encryption

• Describe the reason and value of encryption
• Name terminology used with encryption techniques
• Discover the difference between symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
• Use U2 Basic encryption commands
• Convert readable data into cipher data

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

• Describe web server security
• Identify potential security risks (types of attacks)
• Use public key infrastructure and its implementation in SSL
• Configure U2 Security Control Records
• Create a secure U2 Telnet connection

XML/DB tool

• Define XML/DB tool
• Set up XML/DB tool for connection to U2
• Display and create an XML schema
• Create a file map
• Update a U2 file from an XML document
• Create XML file from XMAP

U2 web services

• Define Service Oriented Architecture
• Define Web Services
• Utilize U2 Web Services
• Use the U2 Web Service Developer
• Create and execute a U2 Query Web Service
• Create and execute a U2 Basic subroutine Web Service