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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring
Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring: A hands-on guide to building an enterprise-grade, scalable RESTful web service using the Spring Framework

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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

Chapter 2. Building RESTful Web Services with Maven and Gradle

As mentioned in the previous chapter, we will build a sample property management system as a RESTful web service. Before we dig into the implementation, let's first take a look at how the service will be put together. In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Building a RESTful web service with Apache Maven
  • Building a RESTful web service with Gradle
  • Structuring our property management web service
  • Running and debugging a Spring-based web service

Apache Maven

Maven is an open-source software project management tool. It was born out of the need to simplify Ant-based builds and it favors convention over configuration. In more concrete terms, it offers out of the box support for typical workflows, such as building Java web applications, provided one follows its conventions. However, customizing the build process can prove challenging, and many of its detractors point this design choice out as the main motivation for not using Maven.

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More information on Maven can be found at https://maven.apache.org.

While Maven offers many features, they are beyond the scope of this chapter. We will focus on its support for building Java web applications.

The following POM (Project Object Model) file illustrates how a project can be declared with Maven (in a file called pom.xml):

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven...

Gradle

Gradle is a project automation tool that borrows a lot of concepts from Maven. It differs from Maven in using a Groovy-based declarative syntax instead of XML.

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Read more about Gradle at https://gradle.org. And, head over to http://www.groovy-lang.org for an introduction to Groovy.

Gradle has become a popular alternative to Maven for its flexibility and neater declarative syntax, while still offering powerful dependency management. We will take a quick look at dependency management in the next section.

Dependency management in Gradle

Gradle offers dependency resolution. It can be set up to use Maven's Central Repository. Let's consider a sample Gradle build (in a file called build.gradle):

apply plugin: 'java'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

We instructed Gradle that we want to build a Java project and that the dependencies should be fetched from Maven's Central Repository. Now, we can simply declare the dependencies we require as follows:

dependencies...

The structure of our sample web service

In Chapter 1, A Few Basics, we decomposed this application into four components:

  • Inventory Service
  • Availability Service
  • Booking Service
  • Billing Service

One approach would be to build our project as a single module and have the code of these four services together.

While it makes the setup quite straightforward, it might impede our ability to deploy these components individually, should it be required for scalability purposes (refer to Chapter 10, Scaling a RESTful Web Service, for discussions on scalability). Instead, we will organize each service into its own individual module.

For the purpose of this section, we will focus on Maven. Our project will be made up of six separate Maven modules:

  • common: This module contains common code and the Hibernate setup that is to be used
  • inventory: This is the inventory service implementation
  • availability: This is the availability service implementation
  • booking: This is the booking service implementation
  • billing: This is...

Developing RESTful web services

In this section, we will provide a few tips to effectively develop Spring-based RESTful web services.

Working with your favorite IDE

Maven and Gradle are well-supported tools and most integrated development environments, or IDEs, provide a way to import such projects. For example, with IntelliJ IDEA, our sample web service project can be imported by selecting the menu options File | Open. Once imported, the project will be shown as follows:

Working with your favorite IDE

With the project imported, we can start implementing our property management system web service. Before we do so, however, let's discuss how to execute our service.

Note

Both Eclipse and NetBeans also offer support for Maven and Gradle (via plugins).

Making services executable

With Maven or Gradle, it is possible to package the service in a WAR format. However, to quickly start and debug the application during development, we are going to implement an executable Java class. With Spring Boot it is easily achieved via the...

Summary

We saw how to set up a Maven or Gradle build to support the implementation of a RESTful web service. It is now time to start implementing our sample web service. The next chapter will introduce the first REST endpoint.

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REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today’s connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Spring makes it one of the most attractive frameworks in the Java ecosystem. Marrying the two technologies is therefore a very natural choice. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the Spring Framework to implement these services. Starting from the basics of the philosophy behind REST, you’ll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. Taking a practical approach, each chapter provides code samples that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book goes beyond the use of Spring and explores approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You’ll learn techniques to deal with security in Spring and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. Finally, the book ends by walking you through building a Java client for your RESTful web service, along with some scaling techniques for it.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with the Spring Framework. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of the Java language. Previous experience with the Spring Framework would also help you get up and running quickly.
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2. Building RESTful Web Services with Maven and Gradle Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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4. Data Representation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. CRUD Operations in REST Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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7. Dealing with Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This is a very information dense book. I was prepared to be disappointed when it arrived because it was so thin. I was instead very pleased. The book is a walkthrough of a little RESTful web services application automating a hotel booking agency. The code examples downloadable from PACKT Published have all worked without any bugs and I have found only one insignificant typo in the book. Highly recommend.
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The book is great for quick read before an interview for rest web services as it touches on the main concepts of code modularization, scaling, caching and security, implementing clients and server side code. You need to know spring but it's gives you a complete picture of all the moving parts. Also recommended if you are new to rest web services and are assigned to a development team that is implementing them.
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I was really pleased with the pace of the book that the breath of knowledge on how to use Spring's RESTful web service. It had a really good example application. I've been creating and maintaining RESTful web services for over 4 years now and this book has expanded even my knowledge.
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This is an excellent introduction to building web services with the Spring framework. I have built web services before but not with Spring so this was a easy way to get introduced to all of its facets. The book walks the reader through the thought process of building a web service and sample code is a nice compliment. The chapters on performance and security stand out as these are what most developers leave out completely or don't think of until the end of the development cycle.The sample code is well written and helps the reader to gain some real world knowledge on how to approach creating web services. This is a introductory book so it will give you the full foundations. It also has a section on scaling web services along with complimentary technologies like Redis and Hazelcast which helps to introduce the reader to thinking more about the architecture and infrastructure rather than focusing just on the application.An excellent book all round.
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Overall the book strikes a great balance in both it’s length and content. The problem with many tutorials/books is that they either give you so little information that in real “enterprise” situations you are completely lost or the information provided is so in depth you both can’t understand and lose interest.Topics covered are diverse and each is gently introduced and implemented in the demo hotel property management system.Testing, performance, build tools, security, scaling and client applications are all covered. This will not leave you an expert in all these areas but gives a great overview and I have found myself coming back to the book as a reference.
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