Kalali Masoud - Developing RESTful services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON

Masoud Kalali has been working on software development projects since 1998, which gives him a broad perspective on software development in general and changes in the software development landscape in the past 1.5 decades. Masoud has experience with a variety of technologies (.NET, J2EE, CORBA, and COM+) on diverse platforms (Solaris, Linux, and Windows). He has a masters degree in Information Systems with a bachelor degree in Software Engineering.

Masoud has authored a fair number of articles and other types of material, including several articles at Java.net and Dzone. He is the author of multiple refcardz, published by Dzone, including but not limited to Using XML in Java (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/using-xml-java) and Security and GlassFish v3 (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-glassfish) refcardz. Masoud is one of the founding members of NetBeans Dream Team (http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansDreamTeam) and a GlassFish community spotlighted developer (https://glassfish.java.net/public/developers.html). Masoud is the author of GlassFish Security (http://www.packtpub.com/glassfish-security/book) that was published in 2010, covering GlassFish v3 security and Java EE 6 security.

Masoud's main area of research and interest includes service-oriented architecture and large-scale systems development and deployment. In his spare time he enjoys photography, mountaineering, and climbing.

Masoud's Twitter handle is @MasoudKalali if you want to know what he is up to.

I should acknowledge my family's support and encouragement as well as Bhakti's patience with me during the course of developing this book. Reviewers, including Anthony Dahanne, Jitendra Kotamraju, and Arvind Maheshwari, played a vital role in developing this book and deserve special thanks. At the end I should acknowledge the role that the Packt Publishing team, including but not limited to Amey Sawant, Sharvari Tawde, and Parita Khedekar, played in concluding this project.

Bhakti Mehta is a Senior Technology Professional with over 12 years of experience in architecting, designing, and implementing Software Solutions on top of Java EE and other related technologies. On the platform level, she is well experienced in different areas of GlassFish Application Server and Java EE specifications.

Bhakti is experienced in developing open source software and working with open source communities and customers. She is a member of the GlassFish team at Oracle. Bhakti's primary areas of interest are server-side technologies, XML, Web Services, Java EE, and Cloud. She has a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and a masters degree in Computer Science.

Bhakti is a regular speaker in various conferences along with having articles and enterprise tech tips at different portals. Her tweets can be followed at @bhakti_mehta.

I would like to use this opportunity to extend a special acknowledgment to my husband, Parikshat, my in-laws, and my dear friend Mansi, for their support and encouragement during the course of this book's development. I thank my two little kids for being my constant source of inspiration to work hard and never give up.

I am extending my gratitude toward my parents and my brother, Pranav, for the role they played in helping me choose this profession. I would like to acknowledge my friend and colleague, Masoud, whose invaluable insights and collaboration helped with realization of this book's idea.

I thank the reviewers Anthony Dahanne, Jitendra Kotamraju, and Arvind Maheshwari for their feedback. I should acknowledge the role that Packt Publishing team, including but not limited to Amey Sawant, Sharvari Tawde, and Parita Khedekar, played in concluding this project.

Anthony Dahanne has been a Java software developer since 2005. His favorite topics are Android, building tools, Continuous Integration, Web Services, and, of course, core Java development. In his spare time, he's hacking on some open source Android app (G2Android, ReGalAndroid, and so on); he also contributes from time to time to build/IDE plugins usually involving Maven and Eclipse.

You can meet him at one of the many Java-related user group gathering in Montral (Android Montral, Montral JUG, and Big Data Montral). Working at Terracotta, he's currently implementing the REST management interface for Ehcache.

I would like to thank Guilhem De Miollis for his time spent reviewing the book and even suggesting some topics, my colleagues at the Interfaces team at Terracotta for always taking the time to share their deep Java knowledge with me, and finally my beloved wife Isabelle for her patience and help to make this book happen.

Jitendra Kotamraju , a principal member of the technical staff at Oracle, is the JSON Processing specification lead and one of the key engineers behind GlassFish. Before leading the JSON Processing project, he was in charge of both the specification and implementation of JAX-WS 2.2. Currently, he is also implementing various web technologies such as Server-sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket in GlassFish.