November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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Versioning RESTful web APIs
You should always version the RESTful web APIs. Versioning of APIs helps you to roll out new releases without affecting the existing customer base as you can continue to offer the old API versions for a certain period of time. Later, a customer can move on to a new version if he/she prefers to do so.
You can version RESTful web APIs in many ways. Three popular techniques for versioning RESTful web APIs are given in this section.