Speaker: Ben Hale

As data-driven applications become more widespread, the services that provide the data are becoming more critical. Most commonly these data services are exposed via REST-ful APIs. This session describes what exactly makes a service REST-ful, how to implement a REST-ful API using Spring, and how to test that API.

Make sure to check out Ben's follow on talk from SpringOne2GX2013: REST-ful API Evolution for a great discussion of API loose coupling with HATEOAS.

http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/ (spring MVC's REST controller)

http://projects.spring.io/spring-hateoas/ (Hypermedia Support)

http://projects.spring.io/spring-data-rest/ (Data REST)

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