What do I need to create a RESTful API Server in Java?

Question

I would like to build my own RESTful API Server and I have no idea what I need for that.

I'll tell you a bit about the project:

On a Webservice (www.mysite.com/) users can register and manage their account and so on. But they also can use the RESTful API (mysite.com/api/...) and can do there pretty much the same via REST.

What is a good way to realize that? Do I need to use jetty or something similar? Should I split web service and restful api ? what I a good architecture for that?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

You can use Spring controller for building a restful server. You can run it on tomcat or jetty doesn't matter.

Check this url : http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.M3/spring-framework-reference/html/ch18s02.html

Answer 2

Tomcat and Jersey are easy to get up and running. I've had some issues with Tomcat 7 and Jersey, but with Tomcat 6 it was straight forward.

This tutorial is quite easy to follow. It's a bit old, but the principle remains the same.

Answer 3

IBM provides good set of information and tutorials about building RESTful web service with Java (Link). After getting your web service running, you can deploy it to Amazon. Take a look at AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Answer 4

In 2017 one of the best solutions would be to use spring boot. Gives you great effects without writing tons of code.

@RestController
public class HelloController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String index() {
        return "Greetings from Spring Boot!";
    }

}

Answer 5

I found a simple example at http://coder2design.com/rest-web-services/ to build a REST application.

• XML Schema(xsd) is used to build domain classes.
• Eclipse EE is used as IDE and Maven for building.
• Jersey as a framework for REST
• Hibernate for persistence layer.
• MySQL as DB

All other configurations are nicely explained.