November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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The evolution of RESTful web services
Before getting into the details of REST-enabled web services, let's take a step back and define what a web service is. Then, we will see what makes a web service RESTful.
A web service is one of the most popular methods of communication between the client and server applications over the internet. In simple words, web services are web application components that can be published, found, and used over the web. Typically, a web service has an interface describing the web service APIs, which is known as Web Services Description Language (WSDL). A WSDL file can be easily processed by machines, which blows out the integration complexities that you may see with large systems. Other systems interact with the ...