Rest Example with Spring - 2

Continuing from the previous post, I decided to take up the next method

@RequestMapping(value = "{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody

Rest Example with Spring.

Over the last one year I have worked on three projects involving REST based services. I found REST pretty cool as a concept - also the fact that unlike SOAP I did not have to learn any new terminologies. instead I needed to model my existing understanding of HTTP to build services.

More on Complex Types

In the last post we were able to map complex xml elements to classes. However it is recommended to build complex types and associate them to elements.

JAXB and Complex types

In the previous post we saw how JAXB generated JAXBElement instances from simple types. Simple types however are just that - simple (!!!)
We often need our elements to allows attributes, include child elements etc. These cannot be achieved using simple types. We need to create complex types for the same.

JAXB and simple elements

In the past few weeks I have been working with web-services. So exposure to xml and xsd was inevitable. I had used xsd a while back and so I needed a revision of some of those topics. I decided to do a quick summary of some of the options available in xsd and how JAXB works with them