Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS

© Sanjay Patni 2017

Sanjay Patni, Pro RESTful APIs, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2665-0_7

7. API Management and API Client

Sanjay Patni¹ 

(1)UCSC Excention, Santa Clara, California, USA

In this chapter we will start with Façade and review API Management requirements/solutions available. Then we will continue with the framework and build demo client calls of RESTful APIs for the podcast application, followed by how clients need to be supported by Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) .

Façade

In this section we will first review the Façade design pattern and then in the second part we will get into details about how Façade is applied to the APIs.

Façade Pattern

Before we discuss the Façade Pattern, let's consider what a façade is in the real world. The most obvious ...