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RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

By : Balachandar Bogunuva Mohanram, Jobinesh Purushothaman
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RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

By: Balachandar Bogunuva Mohanram, Jobinesh Purushothaman

Overview of this book

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a simple yet powerful software architecture style to create lightweight and scalable web services. The RESTful web services use HTTP as the transport protocol and can use any message formats, including XML, JSON(widely used), CSV, and many more, which makes it easily inter-operable across different languages and platforms. This successful book is currently in its 3rd edition and has been used by thousands of developers. It serves as an excellent guide for developing RESTful web services in Java. This book attempts to familiarize the reader with the concepts of REST. It is a pragmatic guide for designing and developing web services using Java APIs for real-life use cases following best practices and for learning to secure REST APIs using OAuth and JWT. Finally, you will learn the role of RESTful web services for future technological advances, be it cloud, IoT or social media. By the end of this book, you will be able to efficiently build robust, scalable, and secure RESTful web services using Java APIs.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introducing JAX-RS Implementation Framework Extensions

In the last two chapters, we discussed the standard JAX-RS APIs for building RESTful web APIs. JAX-RS is a specification for RESTful web services with Java, not a product. In the previous chapters, we gave an overview of popular JAX-RS implementations, such as Jersey, Apache CXF, RESTEasy, Restlet, and so on. Also, we have been using Jersey for running the JAX-RS samples that we built in the previous chapters.

As you may know, Jersey is one of the many reference implementations available in the market today for the JAX-RS specification. In reality, the Jersey framework is more than just a JAX-RS reference implementation. It offers additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful services and client development. In this chapter, we will discuss some of the most useful extension APIs provided by the Jersey and RESTEasy...