Simplifying JAX-RS caching with CDI

This post explains (via a simple example) how you can use CDI Producers to make it a little easier to…

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Quick way to check if the REST API is alive – GET details from Manifest file

There might be cases when you want to quickly verify if your REST API, that is deployed either on dev, test…

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JAX-RS 2.0 : Server side Processing Pipeline

The inspiration for this post was the Processing Pipeline section in the JAX-RS 2.0 specification doc (Appendix C). I like…

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Building a HATEOAS API with JAX-RS and Spring

In my previous blog post I showed how easy Jersey can be configured with Spring Boot. My exploration on Spring…

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Beyond the JAX-RS spec: Apache CXF search extension

In today’s post we are going to look beyond the JAX-RS 2.0 specification and explore the useful extensions which Apache…

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How to compress responses in Java REST API with GZip and Jersey

There may be cases when your REST api provides responses that are very long, and we all know how important transfer…

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Java EE 7 / JAX-RS 2.0 – CORS on REST

Java EE REST application usually works well out of the box on a development machine where all server side resources…

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Custom Reason Phrase in HTTP status error message response with JAX-RS (Jersey)

In some of my recent work I got the request to produce a custom Reason Phrase in the  HTTP status…

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Java EE 7 / JAX-RS 2.0: Simple REST API Authentication & Authorization with Custom HTTP Header

REST has made a lot of conveniences when it comes to implementing web services with the already available HTTP protocol…

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