In my last post, Intro to REST (Revisited), as well as discussing the six constraints of the REST architectural style, the video discussed the background for the Java Rest Service Framework, RESTExpress and introduces a sample project. The video below is part two of the presentation, where we dive in and create a real, working service suite using RESTExpress around a blogging system that uses MongoDB for its back-end store. The reference implementation demo’d during the presentation is available on GitHub and supports linking, pagination, filtering and sorting of collection results returned (for blogs, entries, and comments).
This video goes into a bit of depth on how all that gets accomplished in your service suites with a minimum of coding.
[youtube http://youtu.be/hHDO6soGehc]
If you haven’t heard, RESTExpress is a lightweight micro-framework (along with some other micro-frameworks) that support rapid development of highly scalable, high performance REST services supporting JSON and XML payloads. It is an active open source project that is gaining momentum. You can get more information at the resources below:
