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Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8

By : Mario-Leander Reimer
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Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8

By: Mario-Leander Reimer

Overview of this book

Java Enterprise Edition is one of the leading application programming platforms for enterprise Java development. With Java EE 8 finally released and the first application servers now available, it is time to take a closer look at how to develop modern and lightweight web services with the latest API additions and improvements. Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8 is a comprehensive guide that will show you how to develop state-of-the-art RESTful web services with the latest Java EE 8 APIs. You will begin with an overview of Java EE 8 and the latest API additions and improvements. You will then delve into the details of implementing synchronous RESTful web services and clients with JAX-RS. Next up, you will learn about the specifics of data binding and content marshalling using the JSON-B 1.0 and JSON-P 1.1 APIs. This book also guides you in leveraging the power of asynchronous APIs on the server and client side, and you will learn to use server-sent events (SSEs) for push communication. The final section covers advanced web service topics such as validation, JWT security, and diagnosability. By the end of this book, you will have implemented several working web services and have a thorough understanding of the Java EE 8 APIs required for lightweight web service development.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Testing Java EE 8 web services

In this section, we're going to take a look at different test strategies for Java EE 8 web services. We'll talk about testing simple CDI components with plain unit tests and mocks, testing REST resources using the Jersey Test Framework, and we'll see how to do black box integration testing using the Test Containers framework.

So far, we've implemented our library service by offering a REST API for books, authors, and loans. We also implemented the library client. In this section, we'll talk about testing. You can see the test pyramid in the following diagram. At the bottom, there are unit tests. The middle layer is the service layer tests.

At the top level, you have UI layer tests. Unit testing in Java EE is really simple; you can use your standard test frameworks such as JUnit testing, and you may use Mojito or other mocking...