RESTEasy is a JBoss / Red Hat project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is an implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services, an Eclipse Foundation specification that provides a Java API for RESTful Web Services over the HTTP protocol.
Moreover, RESTEasy also implements the MicroProfile REST Client specification API.
Since WildFly 20, you can configure RESTEasy through the MicroProfile Config project (https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-config). The use of MicroProfile Config offers to REST developers a plenty of flexibility in controlling runtime configuration. If you want to read more details about MicroProfile Config API, we recommend checking this tutorial: Configuring Microservices with MicroProfile Configuration In a nutshell, the … Read more
Let’s check in this tutorial how to build a JAX-RS CRUD application (on the top of WildFly application server) using Vue.js and Axios as Front End. Let’s start with some basic concepts about Vue.js: in a nutshell, Vue.js is a system that enables us to declaratively render data to the DOM using straightforward template syntax. … Read more
Here is a comprehensive JAX-RS Cheatsheet to help you code your REST Services. JAX RS-Annotations @Path: Path to annotate a method or a Class with the resource path it represents. For instance: @Path(“/hello”) public class CustomerEndpoint { } @Produces: To specify the output type that the resource produces, or in a narrower scope the type … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a simple Hello World JAX-RS application for WildFly using just Maven and the Command Line. Pre-requisites: You need a WildFly application server. Read here how to get started with it: Getting started with WildFly Next, we will create a project using a Maven archetype to bootstrap … Read more
Here is a cheatsheet that might be useful for REST developers that need a simple tool like curl for testing their REST services. How to execute a POST application/x-www-form-urlencoded As application/x-www-form-urlencoded is the default, you can just execute: $ curl -d “param1=value1¶m2=value2” -X POST http://localhost:8080/service If you want to use explicit setting: $ curl -d … Read more
This tutorial discusses about RESTAssured, a Testing framework that is used by several frameworks (including Quarkus) to test specifically REST applications. REST Assured is a Java API that can be used to validate RESTful services through its fluent DSL (Domain specific Languages) that describes a connection to an HTTP endpoint and expected results. Here is … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn how to secure a JAX-RS Service using an Elytron File System Realm, restricting access to methods using javax.annotation.security annotations. This example will be deployed on WildFly application server so, in order to get started, download the latest WildFly release from http://www.wildfly.org In order to get started we will at … Read more
JAX-RS 2.1 (JSR 370) contains several enhancements like Server Sent Events which will be discussed in this tutorial. Here are in a nutshell the key enhancements provided by JAX-RS 2.1 : Support for Server Sent Events (server and client) JSON Binding (JSON-B) API integration We have already discussed about JSON Binding (JSON-B) in this tutorial … Read more
Swagger is a popular specification for REST APIs which can be used for a variety of purposes such as: Generating an interactive API console to quickly learn about and try the API. Generating the client SDK code needed for implementations on various platforms. In order to integrate Swagger with your Web application you need to … Read more
This tutorial shows how to invoke REST services using JavaFX API. For the purpose of it, we will use the KitchenSink basic REST serviceand engineer a JavaFX client for it. A pre-requisite of this tutorial is that you have deployed the Kitchensink basic demo application which allows you to create a compliant Java EE 6 … Read more
