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Spring REST

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  • Spring REST is a practical guide for designing and developing RESTful APIs using the Spring Framework.
  • This book walks you through the process of designing and building a REST application while taking a deep dive into design principles and best practices for versioning, security, documentation, error handling, paging, and sorting.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Introduction to REST

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 1-13
  3. Spring Web MVC Primer

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 15-30
  4. RESTful Spring

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 31-46
  5. Beginning QuickPoll Application

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 47-71
  6. Error Handling

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 73-90
  7. Documenting REST Services

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 91-104
  8. Versioning, Paging, and Sor  ting

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 105-119
  9. Security

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 121-146
  10. Clients and Testing

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 147-163
  11. HATEOAS

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 165-174
  12. Installing cURL on Windows

    • Balaji Varanasi, Sudha Belida
    Pages 175-177
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 179-183

About this book

Spring REST is a practical guide for designing and developing RESTful APIs using the Spring Framework. This book walks you through the process of designing and building a REST application while taking a deep dive into design principles and best practices for versioning, security, documentation, error handling, paging, and sorting.

This book provides a brief introduction to REST, HTTP, and web infrastructure. You will learn about several Spring projects such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security and the role they play in simplifying REST application development. You will learn how to build clients that consume REST services. Finally, you will learn how to use the Spring MVC test framework to unit test and integration test your REST API.

After reading this book, you will come away with all the skills to build sophisticated REST applications using Spring technologies.

About the authors

Balaji Varanasi is a software development manager and technology entrepreneur. He has over 13 years of experience architecting and developing Java/.Net applications and, more recently, iPhone apps. During this period he has worked in the areas of security, web accessibility, search, and enterprise portals. He has a Master s Degree in Computer Science and serves as adjunct faculty, teaching programming and information system courses. When not programming, he enjoys spending time with his lovely wife in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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eBook USD 44.99
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  • Read on any device
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