July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
2h 41m
English
Content preview from Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8
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Advanced REST APIs
In this chapter, we're going to take a look at adding designs to a REST API using contract and validation. Then, we will learn about using JSON Web Tokens for authentication. And finally, we'll explore diagnosability, that is, logging, metrics, and tracing for a REST API. In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
- Applying Design by Contract—adding validation
- Using JSON Web Tokens for authentication
- Diagnosability—logging, metrics, and tracing