November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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An overview of JAX-RS
There are many tools and frameworks available in the market today for building RESTful web services. You can use tools of your choice as long as the REST implementation meets the RESTful architectural constraints discussed in the first chapter. There are some recent developments with respect to the standardization of various framework APIs by providing unified interfaces for a variety of implementations. Let's take a quick look at this effort.
As you may know, Java EE is the industry standard for developing portable, robust, scalable, and secure server-side Java applications. The Java EE 6 release took the first step towards standardizing RESTful web service APIs by introducing a Java API for RESTful web services (JAX-RS). ...