API Design
Principles and patterns for designing clear, versioned, and client-friendly REST, gRPC, and GraphQL APIs in Java/Spring Boot services.
6 docs tagged with "rest"
View all tagsException Handling in Spring MVC
How to centralise HTTP error responses in Spring Boot — @ExceptionHandler, @ControllerAdvice, ProblemDetail (RFC 7807), and mapping domain exceptions to the right status codes.
HTTP Fundamentals
A deep dive into the HTTP protocol — methods, status codes, headers, content negotiation, and HTTP/2 basics — as used in Java backend development.
REST Design
How to design clean, coherent REST APIs — resource naming, HTTP verb mapping, versioning strategies, HATEOAS, and idempotency patterns used in production Spring Boot services.
Spring MVC
How Spring MVC processes HTTP requests — DispatcherServlet, @RestController, request mapping, parameter binding, and ResponseEntity patterns used in everyday Spring Boot APIs.
Web & REST Interview Questions
Consolidated interview Q&A for the Web & REST domain — HTTP fundamentals, REST design, Spring MVC, exception handling, WebFlux, and OpenAPI — beginner through advanced.