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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)

Implementing SSE REST clients

In this section, we're going to take a look at registering an JAX-RS client instance to receive SSE. We're going to send messages to the SSE service endpoint, and we want to receive those messages in our JAX-RS client. Finally, we will look at implementing a simple HTML client using JSP.

There's a lot of ground to cover in this section. Let's begin and switch to our IDE. As usual, we will prepare a template project to get us started. What we need to do is implement a small JUnit integration test that we can use as our JAX-RS client. In the setUp method, we will first construct an executor (you'll see in a bit why we need one). In order to do this, we will use the JAX-RS clientBuilder and construct a newBuilder. We wll specify the connectTimeout and the readTimeout and call the .build:

    @Before
public void setUp() {
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