“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. “If it is useful, it will be modified.” Those words of wisdom came from a QA teacher of mine, to explain that all software evolves when it becomes ...
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Build a Java REST API with Java EE and OIDC
“I love writing authentication and authorization code.” ~ No Java Developer Ever. Tired of building the same login screens over and over? Try the Okta API for hosted authentication, authorization, and multi-factor auth. Java EE allows you to build Java REST API s quickly and easily with JAX-RS and JPA. Java EE is an umbrella standards specification that describes a ...
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1. Introduction If you always wanted to work with a Web Framework which allows you to jump-start into API development without the hassle of setting up Web Servers, collecting all the wired dependencies, installing various tools, you’ve been blessed with an excellent framework, Spring Boot. The prime motto of Spring Boot is convention over configuration. In this lesson, we will ...
Read More »When following REST(ful) principles might look impractical, GraphQL could come on the resque
I am certainly late with jumping on the trendy train, but today we are going to talk about GraphQL, a very interesting approach to build REST(ful) web services and APIs. In my opinion, it would be fair to restate that REST(ful) architecture is built on top of quite reasonable principles and constraints (although the debates over that are never ending ...
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As you all know, Spring Boot is a toolkit that makes it super easy to quickly develop powerful web services. It is very modular and made to play well with other frameworks and tools. In this tutorial I am going to show you how easy it is to set up a RESTful API towards an existing SQL database by using ...
Read More »Spring Tutorial: Creating a Hello World REST API Using Spring Framework and Spring Boot
Spring Framework was created as a result of disappointment of Java community with earlier versions of Enterprise Java. Since then it has grown into huge ecosystem that allows one to solve every problem in building a Web-based Java application and more. Spring is often criticized because it used to rely on XML for configuration purposes. As a response to that ...
Read More »Getting Started with Kafka REST Proxy for MapR Streams
MapR Ecosystem Package 2.0 (MEP) is coming with some new features related to MapR Streams: Kafka REST Proxy for MapR Streams provides a RESTful interface to MapR Streams and Kafka clusters, making it easy to consume and produce messages as well as perform administrative operations. Kafka Connect for MapR Streams is a utility for streaming data between MapR Streams and Apache Kafka ...
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Introduction MapR Ecosystem Package 2.0 (MEP) is coming with some new features related to MapR Streams: Kafka REST Proxy for MapR Streams provides a RESTful interface to MapR Streams and Kafka clusters to consume and product messages and to perform administrative operations. Kafka Connect for MapR Streams is a utility for streaming data between MapR Streams and Apache Kafka and ...
Read More »Deploying RESTful Service on Cloudfoundry
In this post, we will deploy RESTful service on Cloudfoundry using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Dev. As creating a restful web service is not a part of this post, I already created employee-service which have a static backend and available for clone from GitHub. Before deploying it on Cloudfoundry, let’s have a brief about it. Cloudfoundry Cloud Foundry is an ...
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