Introduction

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, a standardized approach to building web services.

A REST API is an intermediary Application Programming Interface that enables two applications to communicate with each other over HTTP, much like how servers communicate to browsers.

RESTful is the most common approach for building web services because of how easy it is to learn and build.

Let’s say you order something from a fast-food restaurant and the cashier requests the information needed from you to process your order. After it’s been processed, they hand you the order you requested for. This transaction is a real-life example of how REST API works.

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to build a REST API in Java with Spring Boot. It’ll accept POST and GET request payloads to view and add entries from an entity - User.

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