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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

Web Application Description Language

WADL is an XML description of HTTP-based web applications such as RESTful web services. WADL was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) by Sun in 2009 but has not been standardized yet.

Similar to WSDL used for describing SOAP web services, WADL models the resources provided by a RESTful web service with relationships between the resources. It also allows you to clearly represent the media types used for the request and response contents.

Overview of the WADL structure

The WADL schema that you use for building a WADL file is based on the WADL specification (https://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/). Here is a quick overview of the WADL file content that describes the RESTful web APIs:

The top-level element in a WADL document is application. It contains global information about RESTful web services, such as links to the schema definition and documentation. Here is a quick summary of the elements that you'll see in WADL:

<resources>: This element...

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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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