Category Archives: REST

Getting started with the Falcon Framework (using Python)

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll show you how to get started with Falcon. What is Falcon? Well, to quote from the GitHub repo for Falcon: “Falcon is a really fast, light-weight framework for building cloud APIs. It tries to do as little as … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: Getting started with RESTEasy (a Java REST Framework) and Netbeans 7.1

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Chad Lung

RESTEasy is quickly becoming a favorite project of mine. RESTEasy allows you to easily and quickly create REST based services with Java. Today I’ll show you how fast you can have a minimal REST service running using Netbeans 7.1 and … Continue reading →

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Build a REST service with Netbeans 7, Java, and Jersey that returns JSON

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Chad Lung

One of the great things about Jersey is that it makes working with REST really easy. If your new to Jersey and REST then you can check out my previous article that shows you to easily build a simple REST … Continue reading →

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Building a REST service that collects HTML form data using Netbeans, Jersey, Apache Tomcat and Java

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Chad Lung

The Jersey project is very well documented so it makes it easy to learn REST with Java. In this article I’m going to build two projects. The first project will be a very simple HTML page that presents a form … Continue reading →

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Building a simple REST service using NetBeans 7, a Java Servlet, and JAXB

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Chad Lung

There are plenty of good Java based REST frameworks out there to build applications with. Restlet, RESTEasy, Jersey, etc. come to mind just to name a few. You don’t need a REST framework to build a simple REST service (although … Continue reading →

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A simple Java REST application using Jersey, Netbeans 7 (with Maven), and Grizzly

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Chad Lung

I was reading through the documents on Jersey (for building RESTful Web services) and came across the getting started sample code. I’ve taken that code and modified it slightly to create a very simple Grizzly (embedded) REST server.

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