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Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON

By : Bhakti Mehta, Masoud Kalali
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Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON

By: Bhakti Mehta, Masoud Kalali

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<p>As the technology landscape moves focus towards smaller devices, the need for building scalable, flexible, lightweight, and real-time communications-based applications grows. HTML 5 and Java EE 7 provide a new synthesis of technologies that demonstrate tremendous scope and potential in areas of device independence, asynchronous communication, interoperability, and portability.<br /><br />Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with clear and pragmatic information to take advantage of the real power behind HTML5 and Java EE technologies. This book also gives you a good foundation for using them in your applications.<br /><br />Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON looks at the different HTML5-based Java EE 7 API, and takes a deep dive into the individual areas of technologies to cover basic to advanced concepts, and also provides best practices for each API. You will also learn how to build a REST-based Event Notification Application using the Twitter API, tying all the different technologies together that we will cover. You will also take a look at integrating different Java EE APIs to build a Library Application. If you want to take advantage of using the new HTML5 technologies and Java EE 7 platform, then this is the book for you. You will learn everything you need to know to build portable RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS 2.0, Web Sockets, JSON, and Server-Sent Events.</p>

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Bhakti Mehta | Masoud Kalali
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON
Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Building RESTful Web Services Using JAX-RS
Building RESTful Web Services Using JAX-RS
Understanding REST
RESTful Web Services
Verbs in REST
Introduction to JAX-RS
Summary
2
WebSockets and Server-sent Events
WebSockets and Server-sent Events
The programming models
Emerging standards
Java EE and the emerging standards
Comparison and use cases of different programming models and standards
Summary
3
Understanding WebSockets and Server-sent Events in Detail
Understanding WebSockets and Server-sent Events in Detail
Encoders and decoders in Java API for WebSockets
The Java WebSocket Client API
Sending different kinds of message data: blob/binary
Security and WebSockets
Best practices for WebSockets based applications
Server-sent Events
Best practices for applications based on Server-sent Events
Summary
4
JSON and Asynchronous Processing
JSON and Asynchronous Processing
Producing and parsing JSON documents
Introducing Servlet 3.1
New features in JAX-RS 2.0
Asynchronous processing in EJB 3.1 and 3.2
Summary
5
RESTful Web Services by Example
RESTful Web Services by Example
Event notification application
The library application
Summary
Index
Index

About the Authors

Masoud Kalali has been working on software development projects since 1998, which gives him a broad perspective on software development in general and changes in the software development landscape in the past 1.5 decades. Masoud has experience with a variety of technologies (.NET, J2EE, CORBA, and COM+) on diverse platforms (Solaris, Linux, and Windows). He has a masters degree in Information Systems with a bachelor degree in Software Engineering.

Masoud has authored a fair number of articles and other types of material, including several articles at Java.net and Dzone. He is the author of multiple refcardz, published by Dzone, including but not limited to Using XML in Java (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/using-xml-java) and Security and GlassFish v3 (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-glassfish) refcardz. Masoud is one of the founding members of NetBeans Dream Team (http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansDreamTeam) and a GlassFish community spotlighted developer (https://glassfish.java.net/public/developers.html). Masoud is the author of GlassFish Security (http://www.packtpub.com/glassfish-security/book) that was published in 2010, covering GlassFish v3 security and Java EE 6 security.

Masoud's main area of research and interest includes service-oriented architecture and large-scale systems development and deployment. In his spare time he enjoys photography, mountaineering, and climbing.

Masoud's Twitter handle is @MasoudKalali if you want to know what he is up to.

I should acknowledge my family's support and encouragement as well as Bhakti's patience with me during the course of developing this book. Reviewers, including Anthony Dahanne, Jitendra Kotamraju, and Arvind Maheshwari, played a vital role in developing this book and deserve special thanks. At the end I should acknowledge the role that the Packt Publishing team, including but not limited to Amey Sawant, Sharvari Tawde, and Parita Khedekar, played in concluding this project.

Bhakti Mehta is a Senior Technology Professional with over 12 years of experience in architecting, designing, and implementing Software Solutions on top of Java EE and other related technologies. On the platform level, she is well experienced in different areas of GlassFish Application Server and Java EE specifications.

Bhakti is experienced in developing open source software and working with open source communities and customers. She is a member of the GlassFish team at Oracle. Bhakti's primary areas of interest are server-side technologies, XML, Web Services, Java EE, and Cloud. She has a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a masters degree in Computer Science.

Bhakti is a regular speaker in various conferences along with having articles and enterprise tech tips at different portals. Her tweets can be followed at @bhakti_mehta.

I would like to use this opportunity to extend a special acknowledgment to my husband, Parikshat, my in-laws, and my dear friend Mansi, for their support and encouragement during the course of this book's development. I thank my two little kids for being my constant source of inspiration to work hard and never give up.

I am extending my gratitude toward my parents and my brother, Pranav, for the role they played in helping me choose this profession. I would like to acknowledge my friend and colleague, Masoud, whose invaluable insights and collaboration helped with realization of this book's idea.

I thank the reviewers Anthony Dahanne, Jitendra Kotamraju, and Arvind Maheshwari for their feedback. I should acknowledge the role that Packt Publishing team, including but not limited to Amey Sawant, Sharvari Tawde, and Parita Khedekar, played in concluding this project.

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