Tag Archives: REST

The most important thing when picking HTTP status codes

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Shine Technologies

Every couple of months I’m in a meeting where a couple of developers start arguing about which HTTP status codes to use in their RESTful API, or where they decide to not use HTTP status codes at all and instead … Continue reading →

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Playing with Play Framework 2.3.x: REST, pipelines, and Scala

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Shine Technologies

It’s an established trend in the modern software world that if you want to get something done, you’ll probably need to put together a web service to get do it. People expect data and services to be available everywhere, in a mobile world. With the plethora of frameworks and technologies available to go about implementing a web service, it becomes a chore to try using anything beyond what’s already familiar. But every now and then it’s an enjoyable experience to dive into something new and distinctly unfamiliar. Continue reading →

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Spring Data REST and Projections

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Shine Technologies

Introduction In recent years, Spring has become much more than just a dependancy injection container and an MVC web application framework. Nowadays, it’s the go-to for building enterprise solutions due to the fact it has a fantastic community built up around it, and it has a … Continue reading →

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