Developing RESTful web services

In this section, we will provide a few tips to effectively develop Spring-based RESTful web services.

Working with your favorite IDE

Maven and Gradle are well-supported tools and most integrated development environments, or IDEs, provide a way to import such projects. For example, with IntelliJ IDEA, our sample web service project can be imported by selecting the menu options File | Open. Once imported, the project will be shown as follows:

Working with your favorite IDE

With the project imported, we can start implementing our property management system web service. Before we do so, however, let's discuss how to execute our service.

Note

Both Eclipse ...

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