<title>📚 Bookstore API</title>

📚 Bookstore API – RESTful Web Service

Java REST API for managing authors, books, and orders

🧩 Tech Stack

• ⚙️ Java 17+
• 🔧 JAX-RS (Jakarta RESTful Web Services)
• 📦 Maven
• 🧪 NetBeans IDE
• 🌐 Apache Tomcat Server
• 📄 JSON Data Format

✅ Key Features

• 📝 Author & Book Management – Full CRUD operations with validation
• 🛒 Order System – Place, retrieve, and manage customer orders
• 🚫 Robust Exception Handling – Custom error mappers with clear messages
• 🔐 Input Validation – Ensure data integrity at every endpoint
• 🧹 Clean Code Architecture – Layered design using services, resources, and models
• 📦 WAR Deployment Ready – Easy to deploy on any servlet container
• 🔁 RESTful Endpoint Design – Follows industry conventions for HTTP verbs and responses

🚀 Getting Started

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-username/bookstore-api.git
Navigate into the project

cd bookstore-api
Build the project

mvn clean package
Deploy the generated WAR file to Apache Tomcat

📍 Access API Endpoints:

• http://localhost:8080/testAPI/api/authors
• http://localhost:8080/testAPI/api/books
• http://localhost:8080/testAPI/api/orders

📁 Project Structure

├── models          # Data classes (Book, Author, Order)
├── services        # Business logic
├── resources       # JAX-RS REST endpoints
├── mappers         # Custom exception handlers
└── webapp          # Deployment configuration (web.xml)

💡 Ideal For

• RESTful API development practice
• Java + Maven + Tomcat deployment workflows
• Clean, scalable backend design for web applications

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