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Mastering Spring MVC 4

By : Geoffroy Warin
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Mastering Spring MVC 4

By: Geoffroy Warin

Overview of this book

<p>Spring MVC is the ideal tool to build modern web applications on the server side. With the arrival of Spring Boot, developers can really focus on the code and deliver great value, leveraging the rich Spring ecosystem with minimal configuration.</p> <p>Spring makes it simple to create RESTful applications, interact with social services, communicate with modern databases, secure your system, and make your code modular and easy to test. It is also easy to deploy the result on different cloud providers.</p> <p>Mastering Spring MVC will take you on a journey from developing your own web application to uploading it on the cloud.</p> <p>You begin by generating your own Spring project using Spring Tool suite and Spring Boot.</p> <p>As you develop an advanced-level interactive application that can handle file uploads as well as complex URLs, you will dive into the inner workings of Spring MVC and the principles of modern web architectures.</p> <p>You will then test, secure, and optimize your Spring web application and design RESTful services that will be consumed on the frontend.</p> <p>Finally, when everything is ready, you will release your application on a cloud provider and invite everyone to see.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Spring MVC 4
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Crafting a RESTful Application

In this chapter, we will have a look at the main principles of a RESTful architecture. Then, with the help of very handy tools, we will design a friendly API, leveraging Jackson's capabilities to serialize our model in JSON.

We will document our application with the appropriate error codes and HTTP verbs and automatically generate a neat frontend for our application by using Swagger UI.

Finally, we will look at the other forms of serialization and learn more about the content negotiation mechanism of Spring MVC.