November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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Swagger
Swagger offers a specification and a complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. The Swagger framework works with many popular programming languages, such as Java, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, JavaScript, and .NET.
Swagger was initially developed by Wordnik (a property of Reverb) for meeting their in-house requirements, and the first version was released in 2011. The current release is Swagger 3.0. The Open API specification and public tools are open source, supported by many vendors, such as PayPal, Apigee, and 3scale.
The Swagger framework has the following three major components:
- Server: This component hosts the RESTful web API descriptions for the services that the ...