At the start of the course we establish a basic “Books” API — an API that we continually improve and build upon throughout the course. We begin by deploying to Grizzly, and then implement a series of tests with JerseyTest. These tests are also continually expanded throughout the course. We explore Jersey’s built-in dependency injection, and improve our API to take advantage of Jersey’s async support. We switch from the built-in MOXy library in favor of Jackson to render our highly-tailored JSON and XML, and build a custom MessageBodyWriter along the way. We explore mapping exceptions to responses, and supporting conditional GET requests. We implement our own PATCH verb, and along with it, support for conditional updates as well. Finally we explore Jersey’s support for filters and implement our own custom filter.
Author Name: Paul O’Fallon
Author Description:
Paul has more than 28 years experience in the Information Technology industry spanning academic, start-up and enterprise environments. As Associate Vice President, Architecture at Cox Automotive, he currently leads a team of architects providing strategic direction and implementation guidance to the organization. As a Pluralsight course author, Paul has delivered training across a broad spectrum of technologies, including node.js, Apache Cassandra and Java API development.

Table of Contents

• GET-ing Started With Grizzly
  23mins
• Testing with JerseyTest
  17mins
• Dependency Injection and POST Support
  18mins
• Asynchronous RESTful Resources
  18mins
• Jackson for JSON and XML
  51mins
• Validation, Exceptions, and Conditional GET Support
  25mins
• Adding PATCH and If-Match Support
  14mins
• Filters in Jersey
  22mins