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RESTful Java Web Services

You're reading from RESTful Java Web Services A pragmatic guide to designing and building RESTful APIs using Java

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788294041

Length 420 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

JAX-RS

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Bogunuva Mohanram

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Introducing the REST Architectural Style FREE CHAPTER

2. Java APIs for JSON Processing

3. Introducing the JAX-RS API

4. Advanced Features in the JAX-RS APIs

5. Introducing JAX-RS Implementation Framework Extensions

6. Securing RESTful Web Services

7. Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services

8. RESTful API Design Guidelines

9. The Role of RESTful APIs in Emerging Technologies

10. Useful Features and Techniques

Integration testing of JAX-RS resources with Arquillian

Integration testing tests the interactions between the individual software components in a system. It helps you uncover faults with the integrated components of a system earlier in the lifecycle. In this section, you will learn how to develop and run integration tests for a JAX-RS web application.

A typical JAX-RS web application is comprised of various software components, such as databases, the persistence layer, business service implementation, and the client interface layer. The integration tests that you write for a JAX-RS application should test the interaction between all these components when putting them together to build the complete application.

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Unit testing versus integration testing A unit test is typically a test written by developers to verify a relatively small piece of code, and it should not depend upon any other components or external resources, such as the database. They are narrow in scope. An integration test...

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Authors (1)

Bogunuva Mohanram

Bogunuva Mohanram

Bogunuva Mohanram Balachandar works as associate director for a leading American multinational corporation, listed in NASDAQ-100 that provides digital, technology, consulting, and operations services. He has extensive experience in the design and development of multiple enterprise application integration projects, using various tools and technologies such as Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle AIA, IBM WebSphere Process Server, web services, RESTful services, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), IBM WebSphere MQ, TIBCO EMS, Java, JMS, and Spring Integration. He is certified in SOA, web services, and cloud technologies and has over 16 years of IT industry experience in software design and development. Prior to joining his current employer, he worked with IBM, Accenture, and Wipro.

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