List/Grid Tag Archives: RESTful Web Services
Protect a REST service using HMAC (Play 2.0)
We have HTTPS, what more do we need? When you talk about security for REST based APIs, people often point to HTTPS. With HTTPS you can easily protect your services from prying eyes ...
Play 2.0: Akka, Rest, Json and dependencies
I’ve been diving more and more into scala the last couple of months. Scala together with the “Play Framework” provides you with a very effective and quick development ...
RESTful Web Applications with Jersey and Spring
A couple of months ago, we were tasked with creating an API to expose some functions in our system to third party developers. We chose to expose these functions as a series of REST ...
How should REST services be documented?
REST has become the standard way of creating APIs and exposing resources on the internet. Traditional web services (using SOAP and various sets of WS-* standards) are still used a lot ...
Automatically generating WADL in Spring MVC REST application
Last time we have learnt the basics of WADL. The language itself is not as interesting to write a separate article about it, but the title of this article reveals why we needed that ...
REST Pagination in Spring
This is the seventh of a series of articles about setting up a secure RESTful Web Service using Spring 3.1 and Spring Security 3.1 with Java based configuration. This article will focus ...
Simplifying RESTful Search
Overview REST architectural pattern is based around two basic principles:Resources as URLs: A resource is something like an entity or a noun in modelling lingo. Anything on a web ...
Spring MVC and REST at Google App Engine
Some time ago I wrote about how to implement your Restful Web API using Spring MVC. Read my previous post to know about it. In that post it was developed a simple Rest example. For ...
Develop Restful web services using Spring MVC
REST INTRODUCTIONFrom Wikipedia: REST-style architectures consist of clients and servers. Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and return appropriate responses. ...
Basic and Digest authentication for a RESTful Service with Spring Security 3.1, part 6
This is the sixth of a series of articles about setting up a secure RESTful Web Service using Spring 3.1 and Spring Security 3.1. A previous article introduced security in the context ...
