Java REST Essentials

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train you in core RESTful development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. In this course you will learn about:

· Understand and apply the basic concepts of REST

· Understand and intelligently discuss the similarities and differences between RESTful services and SOAP-based services

· Appreciate the security concerns associated with RESTful services

· Design, develop, and deploy real-world RESTful Services

· Effectively define and design endpoints

· Work with query parameters

· Determine the best format to use for exchanging data

· Understand the principles associated with HTTP methods and how to stay congruent to them

· Extend the semantics of the RESTful service beyond the HTTP methods

· Implement RESTful services using JAX-RS to

· Handle various HTTP methods

· Use different approaches for parameters

· Deal with content negotiation

· Work with different data formats including XML and JSON

· Handle exceptions

· Implement RESTful Java clients

· Develop JAX-RS Java clients using the JAX-RS 2.0 Client API

· Manage different Web targets

· Deal with content negotiation on the client

· Work with different data formats including XML and JSON

· Properly process server responses

· Implement JAX-RS Filters and Interceptors

· Intercept and manipulate service requests and responses

· Dynamically register interceptor to resources

· Understand the concept of NameBinding

· Discover asynchronous JAX-RS processing

· Implement an asynchronous JAX-RS service endpoint

· Register response listeners