There are many pitfalls to be avoided when creating a beautiful Java API. Effective API development means avoiding these traps and solving real problems.

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article ...

We gradually refined the internal DSL of the PizzaBuilder API, first in Java and then in Groovy, working back and forth to improve both context awareness and fluency.