RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0
RESTful Java with JAX-RS 2.0
by Bill Burke
eBook Details:
Publisher: GitBook 2015
Number of pages: 661
eBook Description:
REST is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints that, when applied to the architecture of a distributed system, induce desirable properties like loose coupling and horizontal scalability. RESTful web services are the result of applying these constraints to services that utilize web standards such as URIs, HTTP, XML, and JSON. Such services become part of the fabric of the Web and can take advantage of years of web engineering to satisfy their clients’ needs.
The Java API for RESTful web services (JAX-RS) is a new API that aims to make development of RESTful web services in Java simple and intuitive. The initial impetus for the API came from the observation that existing Java Web APIs were generally either:
- Very low level, leaving the developer to do a lot of repetitive and error-prone work such as URI parsing and content negotiation, or
- Rather high level and proscriptive, making it easy to build services that conform to a particular pattern but lacking the necessary flexibility to tackle more general problems.
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