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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

By : Ludovic Dewailly
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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

By: Ludovic Dewailly

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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring
Ludovic Dewailly
Oct, 2015 | 128 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
A Few Basics
A Few Basics
REST principles
The Spring Framework and REST
Our RESTful web service
Summary
2
Building RESTful Web Services with Maven and Gradle
Building RESTful Web Services with Maven and Gradle
Apache Maven
Gradle
The structure of our sample web service
Developing RESTful web services
Summary
3
The First Endpoint
The First Endpoint
The Inventory service
REST and the MVC pattern
Running the service
A few words on data representation
Summary
4
Data Representation
Data Representation
The Data-Transfer-Object design pattern
The API response format
API evolutions
Summary
5
CRUD Operations in REST
CRUD Operations in REST
Mapping CRUD operations to HTTP methods
Creating resources
Updating resources
Deleting resources
Overriding the HTTP method
Summary
6
Performance
Performance
HTTP compression
HTTP caching
Room availability
Summary
7
Dealing with Security
Dealing with Security
The booking service
Authentication
Authorization
Input validation
Encryption
Summary
8
Testing RESTful Web Services
Testing RESTful Web Services
Unit testing Spring controllers
Mocking
Testing security
Integration testing
Other forms of testing
Summary
9
Building a REST Client
Building a REST Client
The basic setup
Remote versus local clients
Handling security
Exception handling
Summary
10
Scaling a RESTful Web Service
Scaling a RESTful Web Service
Clustering
Distributed caching
Asynchronous communication
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Ludovic Dewailly is a senior, hands-on software engineer and development manager with over 12 years of experience in designing and building software solutions on platforms ranging from resource-constrained mobile devices to cloud-computing systems. He is currently helping FancyGiving.com (a social shopping, wishing, and gifting platform) design and build their system. Ludovic's interests lie in software architecture and tackling the challenges of web scale.

I would like to thank my fiancée, Gaia, for helping me find the time to work on this book, and for dealing with my testiness after late-night writing sessions. I would also like to thank Neil Emerick from NightsBridge (http://www.nightsbridge.co.za) for providing me with the idea and concepts behind the sample RESTful web service that outlines this book.

Also, I would like to give gratitude to Chris Laffra and Michael Van Meekeren from the defunct Object Technology International, who gave me my first taste of commercial software development.

Finally, I wish to thank Nikhil Potdukhe and Menza Mathew from Packt Publishing for guiding me and helping me convert the original concept of this project into an actual book.

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