Key takeaways Most REST services contain repeatable patterns. A lot of time can be saved by using code generation to these patterns. Visual Studio’s T4 and EnvDTE can provide robust code ...

OpenAPI Spring Boot tools As a developer, the ability to use Swagger to test Spring Boot APIs in the browser without having to install an additional tool makes my life significantly easier. However, ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...

Good RPC APIs I've used are stateless, non-remote APIs are not. RMI is a joke. And you tend to use primitive objects instead of complex objects as parameters/return types.

As Red Hat reminds us, “REST is a set of architectural constraints, not a protocol or a standard. API developers can implement REST in a variety of ways.” Push APIs into streaming data Over on ...

Solr has a HTTP/JSON-based API. However, it isn’t exactly a REST API because it doesn’t really follow any of the rules for a well-defined REST interface. I whine about this sometimes.