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Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8

By : Mario-Leander Reimer
Book Image

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)

Error handling in JAX-RS

In this section, we're going to take a look at handling user and server-side errors in a RESTful way by using an appropriate HTTP status code, for example, HTTP status code 400 Bad Request for invalid and malformed requests, status 404 Not Found if something could not be found, and HTTP status code 500 Internal Server Error if something happens unexpectedly. We'll also see how to use WebApplicationException and its subclasses to model error handling, and finally we'll be implementing a custom ExceptionMappers to handle runtime exceptions and return custom error responses:

Conceptual view of this section

This is what we'll do conceptually in this section: we'll again extend our library microservice by several HTTP status codes , for example, HTTP 400 if you issue an invalid book update, 409 for creating an already existing book...