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Cloud-Native Applications in Java

You're reading from   Cloud-Native Applications in Java Build microservice-based cloud-native applications that dynamically scale

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124349
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andreas Olsson Andreas Olsson
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Shyam Sundar S Shyam Sundar S
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Munish Kumar Gupta Munish Kumar Gupta
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Ajay Mahajan Ajay Mahajan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Cloud-Native FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Your First Cloud-Native Application 3. Designing Your Cloud-Native Application 4. Extending Your Cloud-Native Application 5. Testing Cloud-Native Applications 6. Cloud-Native Application Deployment 7. Cloud-Native Application Runtime 8. Platform Deployment – AWS 9. Platform Deployment – Azure 10. As a Service Integration 11. API Design Best Practices 12. Digital Transformation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

The trio – REST, HTTP, and JSON


The web has made HTTP tremendously popular and is the de facto integration mechanism for accessing content on the internet. Interestingly, this technology was not hugely popular within applications that relied on native and binary protocols, such as RMI and CORBA for inter-application access.

When social consumer companies, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter, started publishing APIs to connect/integrate with their products, the de facto standard for integration across the web became HTTP/REST. Social consumer companies started investing in platforms for onboard developers to develop various applications leading to the proliferation of applications that relied on HTTP as the protocol.

The applications on the browser side are a mix of HTML and JavaScript. Information returned from the server or across other applications needs to be in a simple and usable format. JavaScript supports data manipulation, and the data format that it suited most is JavaScript...

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