APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

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REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Setting up authentication and access control in Spring Security is painstaking, but you can draw on very powerful capabilities. Here’s how to get started. Securing web applications is an inherently ...

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The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

Modern web services with a REST API tend to return JSON results. ↩ I’ve been on a time zone kick these past few weeks, building advanced shortcuts for time zone conversions using the TimeZoneDB API.

Flash back to just over a decade ago when the fieldbus wars raged between vendors, inflicting casualties on early adopters and leaving automation engineers unsure of where to make their technology ...