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It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

One of the challenges of REST or SOA-enabled service integration has been its brittleness. Integrated configurations often break when changes are made to metadata associated with APIs, relates ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

RESTful Web services play important role in distributed web applications. Performance of Web services affects overall performance of applications. Using features of REST, HTTP, and the REST frameworks ...

I want to build a web service. What I mean by this is that I want to stand up a server somewhere at some.domain.foo, with some database on the server or whatever, and construct a series of URIs that ...