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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

API modeling


There are two standards that are competing to describe the APIs—Open APIs and RESTful APIs. We will discuss them more in the following sections.

Open API

The Open API initiative is focused on creating and promoting a vendor-neutral API description format based on the Swagger specification. The Open API specification allows us to define a standard, language-agnostic interface for REST APIs, which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code.

In the following figures, we have described a sample API definition based on Open API along with the various sections:

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RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML)

RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) is a standard language to describe the RESTful APIs. RAML is written in the same way as YAML, which is a human-readable data serialization language. The goal of RAML is to provide all the necessary information...

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