Oracle is banking on REST and JSON to modernize Java EE for microservices and the cloud. It may seem like ages since REST stole thunder from SOAP as a mechanism for providing web services ...

TheServerSide has published a number of articles on the tenets of effective RESTful web service design, along with examples of how to actually create a cloud-native application using Spring Boot and ...

The Hypertext Transport Protocol requires all HTTP methods to declare whether they are idempotent or not. With an idempotent HTTP method, multiple invocations always leave the data on the server in ...

Earlier this month a new extension of the Spring Framework, the Spring Social Framework, was officially released. Spring Social is designed to let developers connect Java applications to SaaS APIs ...