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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla
Book Image

Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla

Overview of this book

For more than three decades, Java has been on the forefront of developing robust software that has helped versatile businesses meet their requirements. Being one of the most widely used programming languages in history, it’s imperative for Java developers to discover effective ways of using it in order to take full advantage of the power of the latest Java features. Java 11 Cookbook offers a range of software development solutions with simple and straightforward Java 11 code examples to help you build a modern software system. Starting with the installation of Java, each recipe addresses various problem by explaining the solution and offering insights into how it works. You’ll explore the new features added to Java 11 that will make your application modular, secure, and fast. The book contains recipes on functional programming, GUI programming, concurrent programming, and database programming in Java. You’ll also be taken through the new features introduced in JDK 18.3 and 18.9. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills required to write robust, scalable, and optimal Java code effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Creating a RESTful web service


In our previous recipe, we interacted with data using web forms. In this recipe, we will see how to interact with data using RESTful web services. These web services are a means to interact with other applications using the known HTTP protocol and its methods, namely GET, POST, and PUT. The data can be exchanged in the form of XML, JSON, or even plain text. We will be using JSON in our recipe. 

So, we will create RESTful APIs to support retrieving data, creating new data, editing data, and deleting data. 

 

Getting ready

As usual, download the starter project from http://start.spring.io/ by selecting the dependencies shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

  1. Copy the Person class from the previous recipe:
        public class Person {
          private Integer id;
          private String firstName;
          private String lastName;
          private String place;
          //required getters and setters
        }
  1. We will do the PersonMapper part in a different...