Introducing Play Framework: Java Web Application Development

© Prem Kumar Karunakaran 2020

P. K. KarunakaranIntroducing Play Frameworkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5645-9_6

6. Web Services, JSON, and XML

Prem Kumar Karunakaran¹ 

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Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

 

Modern applications not only expose web service, they also consume other third-party web services. For example, your application may consume a Facebook or Twitter feed. Most modern web services are exposed using REST APIs that handle JSON payloads. A typical problem with calling web services is that they can block the caller and can result in blocking the server until a response is obtained or a timeout occurs. This is not a particularly good design because it can affect the throughput of the server and can result in missed SLAs. Play 2 has ...