The Android Tutorial Series Part 4 – RESTful Web Services and Google Maps integration with Android Application

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My previous three blogs have focused on the following areas in the Android platform:

• A Hello World Application
• A Basic Calculator Application
• A Sneak Peek at Layouts

This blog post is going to focus on Andriod application integration with the outside world using RESTful web services. Also it is going to look at how the wonderful Google Maps product can be integrated within Android App. My technology configuration as stated in the first blog post remains unchanged.

RESTEasy Client Framework (RESTful Web Services Client) – A Tutorial

Around two years back I had posted a blog post on RESTful Web Services using JBoss RESTEasy framework. That blog post was focused on the server side of RESTful Web Services. It explained how to expose your business functionality as RESTful Web Services to the consumer community, i.e. act as a Service Provider. This post intends to look at the other side of the RESTful Web Service contract, the client side. How does a service consumer utilize a RESTful Web Service interface? What facilities does the JBoss RESTEasy framework provide to support service consumers? I found the RESTEasy Client Framework documentation a little lacking so decided put a small tutorial together. The examples below are implemented using RESTEasy 2.2.2 GA version.

Developing RESTful Web Services using JBoss RESTEasy

Enterprise integration was and remains a key challenge in ensuring availability of enterprise data as a single source of truth in real time manner. Over the decades number of techniques/technologies have come and gone. We have seen EAI,JMS, Web Services, SOA etc that have contended providing true enterprise integration solutions. The latest to join this bandwagon is REST and its implementation avatar is described as RESTful Web Services. In case you are interested in understanding what REST is and how does it compare vis-a-vis SOAP, WebServices et all refer the link(URL: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/431.cfm) for details. This post is going to provide a ready-to-use tutorial around how to implement RESTful WebServices using JBoss RESTEasy project.

Enterprise integration was and remains a key challenge in ensuring availability of enterprise data as a single source of truth in real time manner. Over the decades number of techniques/technologies have come and gone. We have seen EAI,JMS, Web Services, SOA etc that have contended providing true enterprise integration solutions. The latest to join this bandwagon is REST and its implementation avatar is described as RESTful Web Services. In case you are interested in understanding what REST is and how does it compare vis-a-vis SOAP, WebServices et all refer the link for details. This post is going to provide a ready-to-use tutorial around how to implement RESTful WebServices using JBoss RESTEasy project.