10 RESTful web services

This chapter covers

  • Understanding RESTful web services fundamentals
  • Building RESTful web services with JAX-RS and Apache CXF
  • Building RESTful web services with camel-restlet and camel-cxf components
  • Using Camel’s Rest DSL
  • Using Rest DSL with various Camel components
  • Binding between POJOs and XML/JSON
  • Documenting your RESTful services by using Swagger
  • Browsing the Swagger API via the Swagger UI

For over a decade, web services have played an important role in integrating loose and disparate systems together. As a natural evolution of humankind and the IT industry, we learn and get smarter. Recently, RESTful web services (a.k.a. REST services) have taken over as the first choice for integrating services. This chapter ...

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