Jos Dirksen - RESTful Web Services with Scala

Jos Dirksen has worked as a software developer and architect for more than a decade. He has a lot of experience in a large variety of technologies, ranging from backend technologies, such as Java and Scala, to frontend development using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Besides working with these technologies, Jos also regularly speaks at conferences and likes to write about new and interesting technologies on his blog. He also likes to experiment with new technologies and see how they can best be used to create beautiful data visualizations, the results of which you can see on his blog at http://www.smartjava.org/.

Jos currently works as a Scala engineer for a large Dutch financial institution and has just given up a position as an enterprise architect for Malmberg, a large Dutch publisher of educational material. There, he helped develop a new digital platform for the creation and publishing of educational content for primary, secondary, and vocational education. Previously, Jos has worked in many different roles in private and public sectors, ranging from private companies, such as Philips and ASML, to organizations in the public sector, such as the Department of Defense of the Netherlands.

Jos has also written three books on Three.js. Learning Three.js , Packt Publishing , provides a complete overview of all the features of Three.js; Three.js Essentials , Packt Publishing , uses an example-based approach to explore the most important features of Three.js, and Three.js Cookbook , Packt Publishing , provides a recipe-based approach to cover important use cases of Three.js.

Besides his interest in Scala and REST, he is also interested in frontend development using JavaScript and HTML5.

Writing a book isn't something you do yourself. A lot of people have helped and supported me when I was writing this book. Special thanks to the following people:

All the guys from Packt Publishing who have helped me during the writing, reviewing, and laying out part of the process. Great work, guys!

The authors and contributors of all the great Scala frameworks that I've written about in this book.

Much thanks to the reviewers. Great feedback and comments really helped improve the book. Your positive remarks really helped shape the book!

And, of course, I'd like to thank my family. I'd like to thank my wife, Brigitte, for supporting me every time I start on a new book, and, of course, my two girls, Sophie and Amber, who continuously make me realize what is really important.

William Scott is a software engineer with over a decade of experience in building web applications. After graduating from Wake Forrest University with a master's degree in computer science, he focused on server-side Java for several projects before recently diving into JavaScript and AngularJS. In his spare time, he enjoys dabbling with iOS and Functional reactive Programming. He is an avid endurance runner, coffee drinker, and board gamer.

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Preface

Scala is a fantastic language that provides a great combination between functional and object-oriented programming. With Scala, you're able to write beautiful, concise, and easily maintainable code in a highly productive manner. Scala also provides very useful language constructs for creating REST services. In the Scala ecosystem, there is a large number of REST frameworks and each one of them allows you to create such services in a slightly different manner. This book gives you an overview of five of the most mature and flexible REST frameworks available, and shows you, through extensive examples, how you can use the various features of these frameworks.

What this book covers

, Getting Started with RESTful Web Services , shows you how to get the code, set up your IDE, and get a first minimal service up and running. It also gives some background information on REST and the model we'll use throughout the book.

, A Functional-style REST Service with Finagle and Finch , explains how you can use the Finch library together with Finagle to create a REST service that follows a functional programming approach.