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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

RESTful API Modeling Language


RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) provides human-readable and machine-processable documentation for your RESTful web services. It helps you to clearly document resources, methods, parameters, responses, media types, and other HTTP constructs that form the basis for a RESTful web service. RAML was first proposed in 2013 by RAML Workgroup. Today, RAML Workgroup includes technology leaders from various software vendors such as MulesSoft Inc., PayPal Inc., Intuit Inc., and Cisco.

RAML is built on standards such as Yaml Ain't Markup Language (YAML). YAML is a human-friendly data serialization standard that works with any programming language. If you are not familiar with YAML, go through the wiki page available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML.

An overview of the RAML structure

Let's take a quick look at the RAML file structure that describes RESTful web services. An RAML file is a text file with the recommended extension of .raml. It uses spaces as indentation...

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