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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You've been asked to transform a monolithic application into one with a microservices-oriented architecture. How would you go about making the transformation? An API gateway for microservices is often ...

Rewrite object-oriented code using functional techniques. Get started with lambdas, method references, functional interfaces, and the Streams API in Java Welcome back to this two-part tutorial ...