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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 discussed modern technology trends and the role of RESTful APIs in each of these areas. Starting with the cloud, we discussed the different offering models and saw an example of provisioning a virtual machine in the Oracle Cloud platform using a RESTful API. Then we touched upon the IoT and how RESTful APIs are used in connecting devices following the event-driven architecture pattern. Also, we briefly discussed social media and single-page applications and its benefits of improved user experience with RESTful API usage. The chapter concluded by discussing OData in short and its usage. With this chapter, we finish our journey through RESTful Java Web Services, Third Edition. We began with the theory of REST, continued with the JAX-RS APIs and the Jersey framework, and completed our study with topics on security, API documentation, design guidelines, and emerging...