It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

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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 ...

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Nov 11, 2025 - Jeremy Snyder - A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and ...

These days, REST APIs are available to integrate your application or website with thousands of platforms — Web 2.0 properties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, as well as old-school companies ...

Is Web services development too complicated? A small but influential group of Web developers thinks so. These developers advocate a new approach – one they say is simpler than the World Wide Web ...

There are plenty of discussions and comparisons of API architectures using REST versus SOAP. But which is a better approach when building cloud native services and applications? Cloud-based API data ...