Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

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The heart of a modern application isn’t code anymore — it’s the APIs that let us connect that application to the rest of the world. In today’s era of distributed, componentized, service-oriented ...

While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

I wrote an earlier article about implementing HATEOAS in Web Services as a way of reducing documentation. In the comments to that article, a reader suggested that, if I really wanted to reduce ...