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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...