RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard

RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard, 9781783289530 (1783289538), Packt Publishing, 2014

The world is moving towards RESTful Web Services and now you can get up to speed quickly and painlessly. This tutorial covers all you need to create your own Web Service applications using the Dropwizard libraries.

Overview

Learn how to build and test your own high-performance Web Service application
Know more about creating and serving custom database content with Web Services
Gain insight on how to secure your Web Service

In Detail

The RESTful Web Services concept is constantly growing compared to SOAP technologies. Used by many API providers, RESTful has started to become the architecture of choice for the enterprise SOA as well. Dropwizard combines everything needed to create production ready RESTful Web Services, combining the most powerful, stable and well-known RESTful Java-based libraries.

This practical guide will help you learn how to create, configure, and implement a dynamic Web Service application by showcasing practical examples using the most important modules of Dropwizard and combining them together.

Starting from using Maven to create an empty default Java application to deploying a production-ready scalable Web Service application, this book demonstrates the capabilities of Dropwizard and the advantages of using it.

Discover how to use Jersey to create rest resources, and add them to Dropwizard's bootstrapped environment so they can be served by its embedded Jetty server. Learn how to combine and utilize the Database. Understand more about Configuration, Testing and Monitoring libraries to create a Web Service application in a step-by-step manner using solid examples. Also gain insight on how to secure your Web Services and validate incoming requests with minimum effort.

This book is an invaluable asset to anyone who wants to create a RESTful Web Service application with the combined libraries of Dropwizard.

What you will learn from this book

Build a sample Web Service application powered by Jersey
Configure your application and externalize your configuration settings
Use jDBI to interact with databases
Validate Web Service requests
Build Web Service clients
Add runtime health checks to ensure your application's optimal performance
Ensure your application's stability by creating unit tests using the Dropwizard testing modules

Approach

A hands-on focused step-by-step tutorial to help you create Web Service applications using Dropwizard

Who this book is written for

If you are a software engineer or a web developer and want to learn more about building your own Web Service application, then this is the book for you. Basic knowledge of Java and RESTful Web Service concepts is assumed and familiarity with SQL/MySQL and command-line scripting would be helpful.

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