Build powerful and flexible RESTful web services in Java using the most popular Java RESTful frameworks to date (Restlet, JAX-RS based frameworks Jersey and RESTEasy, and Struts 2)
Master the concepts to help you design and implement RESTful web services
Plenty of screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning
A developer's guide with practical examples to ensure proper understanding of all concepts and the differences between the frameworks studied If you are already familiar with REST theory but are new to RESTful Java web services, and want to use the Java technology stack together with Java RESTful frameworks to create robust web services, this is the book for you. This book is a guide to developing RESTful web services using Java and the most popular RESTful frameworks available today. It covers the theory of REST; practical coding examples for RESTful clients; a practical outline of the RESTful design process-yes, it's different from traditional web application development; and a complete implementation of a non-trivial web service using the following frameworks: Jersey's JAX-RS, Restlet's Lightweight REST, JBoss's JAX-RS RESTEasy, and Struts 2 with the REST plug-in.
What you will learn from this book?REST architecture basics
What it means for a web service to be RESTful
How to connect to and consume RESTful web services such as Yahoo or Google
A RESTful web service design heuristic
How to deploy web services to Java web containers such as Tomcat and JBoss
How to implement an entire web service using the most popular open source frameworks currently available, including JAX-RS implementations Jersey and RESTEasy, Restlet, and Struts 2 with the REST plug-in
How to create standalone Java web services using the Restlet framework
How you can secure RESTful web servicesApproach The approach we take is ideal for software developers with some, or extensive, programming experience: we design a RESTful API, which serves as our software specification, and implement it with every framework discussed in the book--there are no hypothetical examples; only practical working applications.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for Java developers who want to code RESTful web services using any of the open source RESTful frameworks available to date, for example, JAX-RS implementations such as Jersey and RESTEasy, the Restlet lightweight framework, or Struts 2 with the REST plug-in.
You don't need to know REST, as we cover the theory of REST and web services; however, you should be familiar with the Java language and have some understanding of Java web applications.
For each framework, we develop the same web service outlined in Chapter 4, so there is lots of working code available. This is a practical guide and the majority of the book is about coding RESTful web services, and not just about the theory of REST.
About the Author
Jose Sandoval is a software developer based in Canada. He's played and worked with web technologies since the Mosaic web browser was released into the wild, and for the last eight years he's consulted for various financial institutions and software companies in Canada and the US, concentrating in large-scale Java web applications. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Aside from coding and writing, he enjoys watching a good soccer match and coaching his son's soccer team. You can learn more about his interests at his personal web site josesandoval.com or his consulting firm's web site sandoval.ca.
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