So one more week just flew past! Progress: not much.. I spent the whole week studying..

Progress: Week 2

• Got a pretty good understanding of SOAP and WSDL
• Got and overview of the tls/ssl protocol and how the whole certification system works.. but the protocol is huge and would need some more time and fiddling to wrap my head around it.
• Wrote a very basic soap service, secured it with https.
• Was able to run my service from within the Jetty and secure it using https as well.
• Hence I’ve got an overview of how Java servlets and servlet containers function.
• Was able to verify the services security using wireshark to look into the packets and verify that they are encrypted.

Todo:

I’m going to write another blog post explaining what I’ve learnt so far mentioning the source documents so that others in the team can get a better understanding of https.