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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered some very useful extensions offered by the Jersey and RESTEasy frameworks. These features are really useful to address specific use cases that you may see very often in real-life REST API development. Remember that all the features that we discussed in this chapter are not part of the JAX-RS standard (unless otherwise stated). It is always best practice to go with the standard and minimal use of extensions to avoid vendor lock-in. Therefore, if your application really needs some vendor-specific offering, consider all the aspects and then take a decision.

By now, you must have a good understanding of the JAX-RS APIs and reference implementation extensions. In the next chapter, you will learn how to secure RESTful web services.