Val Huber explains creating a RESTful API from an existing database schema, extending the API to define multi-table hierarchical resources, and adding behavior using declarative reactive expressions.

Why schema definition is needed. REST was introduced as a lightweight solution to address the burdens of SOAP. However, it turns out that a RESTful API needs a schema to define the contract and ...

As a developer, the ability to use Swagger to test Spring Boot APIs in the browser without having to install an additional tool makes my life significantly easier. However, the OpenAPI 3.0 Java ...

Note that Web API, like other 'REST' APIs, is not inherently RESTful (although it does allow the use of REST idioms) and your application will not automatically be RESTful just because it uses it.

Unlike REST APIs, GraphQL APIs only ... The schema defines a structure for how the data — populated from back-end data stores — is formatted and nested. Then, as part of the request to GraphQL ...