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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

This chapter summarized the design guidelines, best practices, and coding tips that developers will find useful when building RESTful web services. You can freely refer to this chapter while working with the JAX-RS and Jersey frameworks.

This chapter started with tips for designing and developing scalable RESTful web APIs and moved from the design guidelines to REST API optimization techniques such as caching, partial representation, partial update, and asynchronous API calls. It then moved on to discuss the microservice architectural style and its relevance. By now, you should have learned how to build scalable and well-performing RESTful applications by using the JAX-RS and Jersey APIs.