Introduction to

RESTful Web Services

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What are RESTful Web Services?

RESTful web services are built to work best on the Web.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural
style that specifies constraints, such as the uniform
interface, that if applied to a web service induce desirable
properties, such as performance, scalability, and
modifiability, that enable services to work best on the
Web.

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What makes RESTful applications so

simple, lightweight, and fast?
Resource identification through URI
Uniform interface
Self-descriptive messages
Stateful interactions through hyperlinks

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Mapping HTTP Methods to

Operations Performed
HTTP Method

Operations Performed

GET

Get a resource

POST

Create a resource and other operations,

as it has no defined semantics

PUT

Create or update a resource

DELETE

Delete a resource

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Common MIME types used by

RESTful services
MIME-Type

Content-Type

JSON

application/json

XML

application/xml

XHTML

application/xhtml+xml

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Creating a RESTful Resource Class

Root resource classes are POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects)
that are either annotated with@Path or have at least
one method annotated with@Path or a request method
designator such as @GET, @PUT, @POST,
or @DELETE. Resource methods are methods of a
resource class annotated with a request method
designator. This section describes how to use Jersey to
annotate Java objects to create RESTful web services.

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The Storage-Service Application

The
Storage-Service
sample
application
demonstrates a simple, in-memory, web storage
service and test code using the Jersey client API. The
web storage service enables clients to create and
delete containers. Containers are used to create,
read, update, and delete items of arbitrary content,
and to search for items containing certain content. A
container can be thought of as a hash map of items.

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RESTful Webservice Best Practices

Provide a distinct URI for each resource you wish to
expose.
Use nouns in your URIs, they highlight the fact that
resources are things and not actions.
Methods that map to GET should not change any
data.
Methods that map to POST should change the data.
Make your service stateless.

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RESTful Web Services?
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Prerequisites: All attendees must be experienced Java
developers with a solid, hands-on grasp of object-oriented
principles. Prior Java EE development experience is
recommended but not required.
Suggested Audience:
Developers
Architects

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