What is Web Services, Web Services Introduction

What is Web Services ? Over the internet, you might have seen different kinds of definitions for Web services. My definition will almost resembles them 🙂 Web Services, the name it self indicates that its a service which is available…

RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) @FormParam Example

By using @FormParam annotation, RESTful web service would accept HTML form parameters sent by the client in the POST request and bind them to the method variables. Generally @FormParam will come into picture when client send the data in…

How to Test (JAX-RS) RESTful Web Services

In this article i will show you how to test RESTful web service (JAX-RS), so far we have learned how to create a RESTful service and testing GET and POST requests through some web browser.  But in real time…

JAX-RS XML Example With JAXB Using Jersey

In this article i will give you an example on how a RESTful web service produces XML response using Jersey. Basically JAX-RS supports conversion of java objects into XML with the help of JAXB. As Jersey it self contains…

JAX-RS Example of Multiple Resource Formats

This article will describe how a RESTful web service produces multiple output formats.  In the previous articles we came across how a RESTful service produces either XML or JSON alone as an output, but in this article i will…

Spring Boot – Example of RESTful Web Service with XML Response

Spring boot services by default gives the response in JSON format, but we can reverse this functionality in such a way that the default response will be in XML.  In order to do that we have to add a…

Spring Boot – RESTful Web Service with POST Request in JSON Example

In the previous articles I didn’t get a chance to use the POST request in the examples, but this is very important. In this article I am going to show you how to create a Spring Boot REST service…