Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate

16 Working with Spring Data REST

This chapter covers

• Introducing REST applications
• Creating a Spring Data REST application
• Using ETags for conditional requests
• Limiting access to repositories, methods, and fields
• Working with REST events
• Using projections and excerpts

Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style for creating web services; it also provides a set of constraints. The American computer scientist Roy Fielding, who is also one of the authors of the HTTP specification, first defined REST, presenting the REST principles in his PhD dissertation (Fielding, 2000). Web services following this REST architectural style are called RESTful web services, and they allow interoperability between the internet and computer ...