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Re: Java API for RESTful Services

Date 2014-07-06 12:30 -0400
From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Java API for RESTful Services
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On 7/6/2014 12:26 PM, jason.petersson@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, July 6, 2014 9:05:52 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I believe JAX-RS 2 comes with a client API.
>>
>> Commonly used implementations like Jersey and RESTEasy also comes
>> with client API's.
>>
>> But I think a lot of developers just use plain Apache HttpClient
>> and whatever JSON or XML library they need to handle the data.
>>
>> REST services are not like WS-* SOAP services.

> Excellent. I will look into Jersey and RESTEasy as well. I have been
 > using Apache HttpClient which works well I am just curious if there
 > are additional API's used that provide additional features specific
 > for REST.

There are so little you need to do RESTful style. HTTP, 4 methods,
headers, URL and body.

The data handling depends a lot on whether you use XML or JSON or CSV or
whatever format.

Arne

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Java API for RESTful Services jason.petersson@gmail.com - 2014-07-06 09:01 -0700
  Re: Java API for RESTful Services Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-06 12:05 -0400
    Re: Java API for RESTful Services jason.petersson@gmail.com - 2014-07-06 09:26 -0700
      Re: Java API for RESTful Services Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-06 12:30 -0400
        Re: Java API for RESTful Services Jason Petersson <jason.petersson@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 09:48 -0700
          Re: Java API for RESTful Services Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-06 19:12 -0400
  Re: Java API for RESTful Services Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2014-07-06 22:35 +0200
  Re: Java API for RESTful Services Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-07-08 00:14 +0200

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