Pro Spring 6 with Kotlin: An In-depth Guide to Using Kotlin APIs in Spring Framework 6

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15. Spring REST Support

Peter Späth¹  , Iuliana Cosmina², Rob Harrop³ and Chris Schaefer⁴

(1)

Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

(2)

Edinburgh, UK

(3)

Reddish, UK

(4)

Venice, FL, USA

 

Chapter 13 introduced communication over the HTTP protocol between two Spring web applications that exposed REST API. This chapter expands the subject by introducing you to RESTful web services, also referred to as RESTful-WS.

Nowadays, RESTful-WS is perhaps the most widely used technology for remote access, From remote service invocation via HTTP to supporting an Ajax-style interactive web front end, RESTful-WS ...