November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
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Java tools and frameworks for building RESTful web services
Over the last few years, the REST architectural style has become very popular in the industry and many enterprises have accepted it as the existent standard for building public web APIs, particularly when scalability and simplicity are major concerns for them. Today, one may see many tools and frameworks available in the market for building RESTful web services. In this section, we will briefly discuss some popular Java-based frameworks and tools for building RESTful systems.
The Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) is the Java API for creating RESTful web services following the REST architectural pattern discussed in this chapter. JAX-RS is a part of the Java Platform Enterprise ...