Explore Products

Best Sellers

New Releases

Books

Videos

Audiobooks

Learning Hub

Free Learning

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):

Balachandar Bogunuva Mohanram

View More author details

Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

Swagger

Swagger offers a specification and a complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. The Swagger framework works with many popular programming languages, such as Java, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, JavaScript, and .NET.

Swagger was initially developed by Wordnik (a property of Reverb) for meeting their in-house requirements, and the first version was released in 2011. The current release is Swagger 3.0. The Open API specification and public tools are open source, supported by many vendors, such as PayPal, Apigee, and 3scale.

The Swagger framework has the following three major components:

Server: This component hosts the RESTful web API descriptions for the services that the clients want to use
Client: This component uses the RESTful web API descriptions from the server to provide an automated interfacing mechanism...

The rest of the chapter is locked

A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of

Start free trial

Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime

Authors (1)

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.

See other products by Bogunuva Mohanram