Comments on: Writing RESTFul Java Book

By: Art Yeo

Art Yeo — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:14:33 +0000

Thank you, Bill. CDI sounds about right. I’ll look into it and see it all fits into place.

By: billburke

billburke — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:53:14 +0000

You can manually create your JAX-RS service objects within an Application class. Alternatively you can preconfigure stuff within a Spring bean or EJB/CDI equivalent and reference it within your JAX-RS service.

By: Art Yeo

Art Yeo — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:44:39 +0000

Hey Bill,
I love your bk and it helped me a lot to get things started.

Incidentally, while I was designing and developing parts of my system, I came across a standard issue where I need my system to read a bunch of static data from the Db into some “global” Java obj during startup so that when JAX-RS is servicing each HTTP request, it does not need to keep instantiating the same objs and populating them from the Db. They are mainly config data that *never* change but I want them to be read from the Db instead of encoding them in static data members.

Do you know of way or workaround for this issue?

Thanks!
–
Art

By: billburke

billburke — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:30:39 +0000

Publisher wants it out in September. I hope to make it for JBossWorld. Again, its mostly 95% going to be about JAX-RS. Whether its a complicated framework or not, I’ll let you decide.

By: Martyn

Martyn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:47:34 +0000

Any latest news on a publication date yet?
Also, I hope that you start off with some very very basic examples in java, ie no complicating frameworks etc. Some of us are new to all this!
On the client side I’d be interested in seeing flex used as an example since that’s what I’m currently looking at.
Cheers.

By: Claus Hausberger

Claus Hausberger — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:27:03 +0000

I agree. Restful Web Service is a wonderful book and I like the Ruby examples, but examples in other languages as a separate download would have been great.

@Bill: You can use JRuby to write some Ruby examples for your book

Claus

By: cvasilak

cvasilak — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:51:01 +0000

Thank you!

I really need a good book for JAX-RS

Regards

By: Mike Miller

Mike Miller — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:17:23 +0000

Okay, so my next question is, If I only had time to read one book on REST, which should I read?

I know people may say “Read both!” but I am a slow reader and my list of ‘to reads’ is getting too long…

By: billburke

billburke — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:19:10 +0000

Mike,

Although it will over lap a little bit, my book should not compete with Restful Web Services. Restful Web Services is an awesome book. I highly recommend it to anyone. I did *HATE* that the examples were in Ruby.

Most of the book is going to be about JAX-RS. Like my EJB 3.0 book, there will be a workbook section that shows you how to run the examples in the book with RESTEasy, which is a certified JAX-RS implementation. Also, one chapters in the book will be “RESTFul Clients” and a good portion of that will walk through RESTEasy’s client framework as well as java.net.URL and Apache HTTP Client.

By: Mike Miller

Mike Miller — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:54:38 +0000

So how would this book be diffent from the “Restful Web Services” book by O’Reilly? I have been looking for a good “Rest” related book and the “Restful Web Services” books seems to be the most up-to-date based on the publication dates. I believe I did read that the examples were in Ruby or Rails, but the comments on Amazon indicated that people still thought that it was a good book to get a handle on REST.

Will the book have a ‘RESTEasy’ bent to it or stick mostly to JAX-RS?