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RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

By : Balachandar Bogunuva Mohanram, Jobinesh Purushothaman
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RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

By: Balachandar Bogunuva Mohanram, Jobinesh Purushothaman

Overview of this book

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a simple yet powerful software architecture style to create lightweight and scalable web services. The RESTful web services use HTTP as the transport protocol and can use any message formats, including XML, JSON(widely used), CSV, and many more, which makes it easily inter-operable across different languages and platforms. This successful book is currently in its 3rd edition and has been used by thousands of developers. It serves as an excellent guide for developing RESTful web services in Java. This book attempts to familiarize the reader with the concepts of REST. It is a pragmatic guide for designing and developing web services using Java APIs for real-life use cases following best practices and for learning to secure REST APIs using OAuth and JWT. Finally, you will learn the role of RESTful web services for future technological advances, be it cloud, IoT or social media. By the end of this book, you will be able to efficiently build robust, scalable, and secure RESTful web services using Java APIs.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Using third-party entity provider frameworks with Jersey

We discussed the various frameworks for JSON processing (and binding) in Chapter 2, Java APIs for JSON Processing. In this section, we will see how to tell the JAX-RS runtime to use a different entity provider framework (also known as the binding framework) instead of the default one provided by the container.

When you deploy the JAX-RS 2.0 application on the WebLogic or GlassFish server, the runtime automatically adds MOXy as the JSON binding framework for your application. Note that MOXy is EclipseLink's object-to-XML and object-to-JSON mapping provider. However, you can override the default JSON processor framework offered by the Jersey runtime with one that you may prefer for your application.

The following example overrides the default JSON framework used in the Jersey implementation with Jackson (https://github...