Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Core features of Light 4j

The light-4j platform aims at containerized microservices and supports a design-driven approach from the OpenAPI specification for the RESTful API and the GraphQL IDL for GraphQL services and has code-generation and runtime models (for validation and security).

As a platform or a framework, it's good that it addresses a few technical cross-cutting concerns, such as auditing, load-balancing, authentication, and health checks, so that service or API developers can focus on business logic without worrying too much about those technical concerns, also called non-functional requirements. Light 4j provides various handler logic and separates those non-functional requirements from the business context, to help the API developers ...