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Step-by-step Spring Boot RESTful web services example in Java

Follow the essential steps to download Java 21, configure Windows environment variables, update PATH, and confirm that the JDK is working. Learn how JAR files relate to ZIP archives, how to extract ...
TheServerSide

Is JSON and XML your REST performance bottleneck?

The widespread use of ASCII encoding formats like JSON and rest may be killing server performance. A wide variety of emerging binary formats offer significantly improved performance for processing ...
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Book Review: Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON

I was particularly interested in accepting Packt Publishing‘s offer to provide a book review of Masoud Kalali‘s and Bhakti Mehta‘s Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON ...
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The quiet glory of REST and JSON

I don’t expect that many developers today fully appreciate the quiet glory that is REST and JSON. But then, most developers today have not been around the software business as long as I have. It’s ...