RESTful Tutorial with Java 25 and Spring Boot
🚀 Building RESTful Services with Java 25 & Spring Boot — A Complete Guide 1. What is a RESTful Service? REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style for designing networked applications. A RESTful service : Exposes resources via URLs Uses HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH) Is stateless Exchanges representations (mostly JSON) Uses standard HTTP status codes Follows resource-oriented design Example Resources GET /api/employees -> Get all employees GET /api/employees/1 -> Get employee by id POST /api/employees -> Create employee PUT /api/employees/1 -> Update employee DELETE /api/employees/1 -> Delete employee 2. Tech Stack Java 25 Spring Boot 3.x+ (latest) Spring Web Spring Validation Spring Data JPA (optional for DB) Jackson (JSON serialization) Maven or Gradle H2 / PostgreSQL (optional) 3. Project Structure (Typical) com.example.demo ├── DemoApplica...