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For my current project, I am developing both a REST API and a mobile client app. However, I have hit a snag in keeping everything RESTful. I have an entity exposed by the API which is a DateRange. The ...

Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal ...

The open source Restlet API reduces the workload involved in building and consuming RESTful APIs in Java. In this second article in the REST for Java developers series, Brian Sletten introduces you to ...

Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...