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JSON API
Elide

Stand up {json:api} web services backed by
JPA annotated models in less than 15 minutes 

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    <p>Quickly build and deploy <b>production quality</b> web services that expose your data as a service.</p>
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    <p>Elide is a Java library that enables you to stand up a <a href="http://jsonapi.org">JSON API</a> web service with <b>minimal effort</b> starting from a JPA annotated data model.</p>
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    <p>JPA enables you to use an ORM or, if you prefer, any persistence technology that support JPA&mdash;<b>Elide is agnostic</b> to your particular persistence strategy.</p>
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    <p>Explore, understand, and compose queries against your Elide API through generated <a href="http://swagger.io">Swagger</a> documentation.</p>
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Security comes standard. Controlling access to your data is as simple as defining your rules and annotating your models.

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    <p>Elide supports the <a href="http://jsonapi.org/extensions/jsonpatch/">JSON API Patch extension</a> which enables multiple create, edit, and delete operations in a <b>single atomic request</b>.</p>
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    <p>Elide is 100% <b>open source</b> and available on <a href="https://github.com/yahoo/elide">github</a>. Released under the commercial-friendly <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p>
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    <p><b>Mobile Friendly.</b> JSON API lets developers fetch entire object graphs in a single round trip. With sparse fields, only the requested elements of the data model are returned.</p>
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In this 13 minute tutorial, we demonstrate how to stand up Elide using Dropwizard.

We build a JSON API web service that exposes two models: User and Post.

We also demonstrate how to create, list and delete posts using Postman.