Most of my REST services accept simple JSON payloads and are easy to test via Swagger. However, I found that adding support for a multi-part upload service wasn’t entirely obvious, so I figured I’d make a note of it here.

Veracode provides static and dynamic analysis of your application code. There are a couple of scripts out there for automating the deployment to their scanning service but I didn’t see anything for providing push button deployments via Bamboo so here we go.

I use IntelliJ’s shortcut for generating getters and setters for my classes all the time. Since this code is generated, I like to mark it as such with an @Generated annotation.

I seem to be in the shrinking minority of people that still use Apache CXF. I used this library in my SOAP / Web Services days and it seemed like a natural choice for my foray into REST. One problem though is that a lot of the latest cool libraries like swagger are focused on Jersey and ignore CXF in favor of detailed confg walk thrus for dropwizard/Jersey.

Here’s how I got swagger working with CXF along with one gotcha.

I’ve found myself settling on a multi-module maven structure for my web-apps as a matter of habit. The Maven Book offers an introduction to the multi-module structure in its Best Practices section but it’s quite dense and a lot to get through.