Chapter 4. Crafting a RESTful Application
In this chapter, we will have a look at the main principles of a RESTful architecture. Then, with the help of very handy tools, we will design a friendly API, leveraging Jackson's capabilities to serialize our model in JSON.
We will document our application with the appropriate error codes and HTTP verbs and automatically generate a neat frontend for our application by using Swagger UI.
Finally, we will look at the other forms of serialization and learn more about the content negotiation mechanism of Spring MVC.
What is REST?
REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style that defines best practices for creating scalable web services leveraging the capabilities of the HTTP protocol.
A RESTful ...
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