Book Image

RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

Book Image

RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
RESTful Java Web Services Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. The Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services

In earlier days, many software solution providers did not really pay enough attention to documenting their RESTful web APIs. However, soon they realized the need for a good API documentation solution in order to accelerate the adoption of their REST API services by customers. As a result, many REST API metadata standards have emerged in the recent past.

Today, you will find a variety of approaches to document RESTful web APIs. This chapter describes some of the popular solutions available today for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. This learning will definitely help you to quickly learn and use the other API documentation solutions available in the market.

The following solutions are covered in this chapter:

  • Web Application Description Language

  • RESTful API Modeling Language

  • Swagger