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RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

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RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
RESTful Java Web Services Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction to RESTful web services


The API documentation for RESTful web services provides a standard language-independent interface, which can be used by both humans and machines to discover the capabilities of APIs without accessing the source code. This chapter introduces a few of the various API documentation tools and options that you might choose from.

Let's start by discussing one of the earliest solutions for RESTful web API documentation—Web Application Description Language.