REST (RESTful Webservices) with JAX-RS (Java API for RESTful Web Services)

Individual plans, exercises and reading guides for COS and DAT classes can be found here:

DAT - COS

Learning objectives

• Learn the ideas behind implementing and API via REST and JSON.
• Learn how to implement a REST API using Java's JAX-RX API
• Learn how to deal with both success and failure scenarious in a REST API
• Learn how to test a REST API using REST Assured.

Business competences

REST has become the current standard for designing web API's

This week will provide students with the background to join teams, implementing REST API's in any language/platform, even if this week uses JAX-RS.

Exercises

Exercise - REST Quotes
Exercise - REST Quotes ErrorHandling
Exercise - REST Persons
Exercise - REST Persons ErrorHandling
Exercise - REST Digital Ocean
Exercise - REST RestAssured GettingStarted
Exercise - REST RestAssured Continued

Study point exercises

Study point exercises

Resources:

Our recommended resources for this week:

Wikipedia - REST

This article gives a nice language independent introduction to REST (remember REST is not a Java thing, but can be implemented with Java) RESTful Web Services: A Tutorial

This is the user guide for the Java Jersey API we are using to implement REST. Don't be scared by the "size" of this Guide. Use it, just as a reference, when you need info about specific details.

Jersey, User Guide

REST - Best Practices