Java RESTful Backend - for the "Galaxy's finest smugglers" app

The aim of this repo is to demonstrate how to build a Java backend for an app with a fun subject matter. The RESTful backend is essentially a Java web service

Implementation details

The Java backend has been built using,

• Java 8 - although no Java 8 features have been used
• Tomcat 7 - for deployment
• Eclipse - IDE
• Jersey - for creating the Java web service i.e. the RESTful backend

Why the Star Wars reference?

The recent Star Wars movie was a big hit and while not everyone may like it, I thought it may provide a slightly different context to building a Java RESTful backend for an app and hence I decided to use it.

More details on this repo!

Here's a blog post that explains this repo in greater detail. The blog post aims to make learning how to build a Java REST backend more interesting by telling a story of a developer who is asked to build it when he has no experience with Jersey. The post provides details on the developer's approach on how to build a solution and a list of some of the useful tutorials he comes across on his journey to learn how to build a Java REST backend with Jersey.