Building a simple RESTful API with Spark

Disclaimer: This post is about the Java micro web framework named Spark and not about the data processing engine Apache…

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REST Maturity

In 2008, Leonard Richardson published his Maturity Heuristic that classified web services into three levels based on their use of…

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Spring Rest Controller with angularjs resource

Angularjs ngResource is an angularjs module for interacting with REST based services. I used it recently for a small project…

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Declarative Linking in Jersey 2.9 and up

A couple of weeks ago A couple of months ago I was looking how I was going to engineers new…

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Rest API best(?) practices reloaded

The last one and a half year I’m involved in 2-3 projects that expose a big set of Rest APIs…

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Jax-RS custom exception handling

One of the nice things about working with JEE is the components available really are pretty standard.  While using JAX-RS,…

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Dropwizard: painless RESTful JSON HTTP web services

Java developers looking for a quick, painless way of creating production-ready RESTful JSON HTTP web services should consider the Dropwizard…

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The Power of Spreadsheets in a Reactive, RESTful API

Being mostly a techie, I’ve recently and admittedly been deceived by my own Dilbertesque attitude when I stumbled upon this…

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Exporting Spring Data JPA Repositories as REST Services using Spring Data REST

Spring Data modules provides various modules to work with various types of datasources like RDBMS, NOSQL stores etc in unified…

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