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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices
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Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

by Harihara Subramanian J, Anupama Murali, Pethuru Raj
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Learning about service-oriented architecture

Service-oriented architecture is an architectural style of web services. It defines some standards and lays down best approaches to design and develop a web service. Any web service is the logical representation of repeatable business activities that have a specified outcome, such as retrieving a weather report for a particular city, accessing stock prices for a given stock, updating a record to an inventory service, and so on. SOA is self-contained, and also provides guidelines to combine a service with other services as well. Another fact about SOA is that it is a black box (or abstract) to the service consumer who consumes it.

In short, SOA is essentially a collection of services, those services ...

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