RESTful service with Spring3 annotations
Creating RESTful services @RequestMapping(value = {"restExampleString/{name}" }, method = RequestMethod.GET) public @ResponseBody String restExampleString(@PathVariable String name){ String returnText; returnText = "Welcome "+name+"."; return returnText; } A simple method annotated with @ResponceBody, acts as RESTful service. This is included in package org.springframework.web. We use URI to name the resource. we can get the information contained in the URI. {name} gives the information where as restExampleString gives the path to the service. sample URI for a RESTful service will be: http://localhost:8080/appname/restExampleString/ris @PathVarable : Here ris contains the information passed to the RESTful service. @PathVariable annotation is used to get the information on to method variable. This annotation can also have the parameter(binding URI variable name to method variable). @...