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Advantages of HATEOAS based RESTful service
There is a scenario, where we have two commercial applications that are so called REST based(java) but not HATEOAS compliant. Development activity is out-sourced to vendor
Development phase of ...
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Event-based over-HTTP framework
I'm designing a distributed game server which will support both browser and UE4 clients (hopefully both over HTTP for simplicity) and I keep butting my head against REST and doing semantic backflips ...
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How do I integrate hibernate and REST web service in java?
I am going to develop which will be web application as well as mobile (android / iOS / windows) application. The database in this application will be managed by Hibernate. Also as it is cross platform ...
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How to deal with automatic binding exceptions with Jersey?
It's really nice to have automatic binding with Jersey-Jackson (well, I believe it's actually MOXy the one who manages the bindings), so object serialization and deserialization is done under the hood....
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Should I return a 204 or a 404 response when a resource is not found?
I am developing a simple RESTful service for tournaments and schedules. When a tournament is created through a POST request containing a JSON body, the tournament is inserted in a BiMap, declared as ...
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RESTful service and DAO: deciding on responses
I am developing a RESTful API and I am using DAOs to serve data to the service.
I am having trouble deciding where certain responsibilities should fall, whether in the service or in the DAO contract. ...
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Saving to file before storing into a database in a REST service
A mobile back-end I am building should receive a larger amount of data (some sensor recordings) from an Android phone. The phone does not have much use of it so it was most efficient to store the data ...
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Web-services REST security clarification
I'm newbie of web services programming and I have some problem to understand how to work authentication/security for REST WS pattern.
I had read about OAuth but I haven't understand how it work in ...
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REST vs RESTful vs "normal" web service - the same or not?
I've read a couple of definitions and discussion on REST and/or RESTful applications, but I still do not understand the real meaning of it.
I usually work with the apps which either fetch data via ...
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