RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

The HTTP DELETE method

The DELETE method is used to delete the resource. In this example, we will delete a resource by making use of the same URI that we used in the other three cases.

Assume that we want to delete the Sales department from the data storage. We send a DELETE request to our service with the following URI: http://www.packtpub.com/resources/departments/Sales

The sequence diagram for our DELETE request is shown in the following diagram:

The series of steps for the DELETE request is as follows:

1. A Java client makes a DELETE request to http://www.packtpub.com/resources/departments/Sales.
2. The server receives the request and lets ...