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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 and sending SSE broadcasts

In this section, we're going to take a look at creating SSE broadcaster instances. We're going to register SSE event sinks with this SSE broadcaster, and then we're going broadcast events to all registered sinks. Finally, we'll implement a simple HTML chat leveraging SSE.

There's a lot of ground to cover in this section. Let's get started and open our IDE. As usual, to get started, we will prepare a small skeleton project. First up, we will implement the BroadcastResource class, which is the server side for sending SSE broadcasts. We have a few things to do. We will inject the SSE @Context which we need to construct new events. The next thing we need to do is initialize an SSE broadcaster. For this, we will use the @Context we just injected and we'll define an SseBroadcaster so that this is the main instance...