Spring 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach to Spring Framework

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3. Spring MVC: REST Services

Marten Deinum¹  , Daniel Rubio² and Josh Long³

(1)

Meppel, Drenthe, The Netherlands

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Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

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Canyon Country, CA, USA

 

In this chapter, you will learn how Spring addresses Representational State Transfer, usually referred to by its acronym REST. REST has had an important impact on web applications since the term was coined by Roy Fielding in the year 2000.

Based on the foundations of the Web’s protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the architecture set forth by REST has become increasingly popular in the implementation of ...