The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

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RESTful services are stateless, client-server based, cacheable and leverage resources. These resources have a common interface and are uniquely addressable using URIs. In this post, I’ll present some ...

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If you want to build lightweight, fast, REST APIs, or provide server support for AJAX-intense Rich Internet Applications such as Gmail, or develop scalable systems that can support thousands of ...

I was particularly interested in accepting Packt Publishing‘s offer to provide a book review of Masoud Kalali‘s and Bhakti Mehta‘s Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON ...