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RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition

You're reading from   RESTful Java Web Services, Second Edition Design scalable and robust RESTful web services with JAX-RS and Jersey extension APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399092
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jobinesh Purushothaman Jobinesh Purushothaman
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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 API 5. Introducing the Jersey Framework Extensions 6. Securing RESTful Web Services 7. The Description and Discovery of RESTful Web Services 8. RESTful API Design Guidelines A. Useful Features and Techniques Index

Using Open Data Protocol with RESTful web APIs


REST is an architecture style for sending messages back and forth from the client to the server over HTTP. The REST architectural style does not define any standard for querying and updating data. Open Data Protocol (OData) defines a web protocol for querying and updating data via RESTful web APIs uniformly. Many companies, including Microsoft, IBM, and SAP, support OData today, and it is governed by Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Currently, the latest release of OData is Version 4.0.

A quick look at OData

OData provides you with a uniform way of describing the data and the data model. This helps you to consume the REST APIs from various vendors uniformly. Let's take a quick look at some of the core features offered in OData with some examples.

URI convention for OData-based REST APIs

The OData specification defines a set of recommendations for forming the URIs that identify OData-based REST APIs....

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