REST API Evolution

In one way or another, every developer has come in touch with an API. Either integrating a major system for…

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Quick peek at JAX-RS request to method matching

In this post, let’s look at the HTTP request to resource method matching in JAX-RS. It is one of the…

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Journey to idempotency and temporal decoupling

Idempotency in HTTP means that the same request can be performed multiple times with the same effect as if it…

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How to secure Jersey REST services with Spring Security and Basic authentication

In my previous blog post, Quick way to check if the REST API is alive – GET details from Manifest…

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Per client cookie handling with Jersey

A lot of REST services will use cookies as part of the authentication / authorisation scheme. This is a problem…

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Building a REST service in Scala with Akka HTTP, Akka Streams and reactive mongo

At the end of last year I wrote a couple of articles that showed how you can use Spray.io 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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