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Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring

A hands-on guide to building an enterprise-grade, scalable RESTful web service using the Spring Framework

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|Sep 2025
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A hands-on guide to building an enterprise-grade, scalable RESTful web service using the Spring Framework

Key Features

    Book Description

    REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today’s connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs.
    The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Spring makes it one of the most attractive frameworks in the Java ecosystem. Marrying the two technologies is therefore a very natural choice.
    This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the Spring Framework to implement these services. Starting from the basics of the philosophy behind REST, you’ll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. Taking a practical approach, each chapter provides code samples that you can apply to your own circumstances.
    This book goes beyond the use of Spring and explores approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You’ll learn techniques to deal with security in Spring and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies.
    Finally, the book ends by walking you through building a Java client for your RESTful web service, along with some scaling techniques for it.

    What you will learn

      Who this book is for

      This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with the Spring Framework. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of the Java language. Previous experience with the Spring Framework would also help you get up and running quickly.

      Table of Contents

      1. A Few Basics
      2. Let
      3. The First Endpoint
      4. Data Representation
      5. CRUD operations in REST
      6. Performance
      7. Dealing with Security
      8. Testing RESTful Web Services
      9. Building a REST Client
      10. Scaling a RESTful Web Service
      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-319-2
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 128