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Looking for lightweight php based cms with rest-api

If Wordpress doesn't fit your needs, then you might want to look at a typical alternative that might fit all the requirements you specified so far: Drupal. Here are some more reasons why I think it ...
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Is there a decent REST API testing tool that doesn't lack basic features, or gate them behind a paywall?

I use SOAPUI to test REST APIs. You can save the full request and get pretty verbose details on both send and receive channels. It supports plain text, JSON, and XML messages (and probably other ones ...
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Is there a decent REST API testing tool that doesn't lack basic features, or gate them behind a paywall?

I would recommend curl. I do all my API testing with curl. You can write scripts with curl requests. If you want a GUI, I would recommend JMeter. It can also run from the command line. It's more ...
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Simple Web UI builder for backend devs

I'm still open for other/better suggestions, however this seems to do the trick: https://github.com/ma-ha/rest-web-ui Demo: https://mh-svr.de/pong_dev/index.html?layout=main
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What JVM is free for commercial use on servers with Java 8 web application?

Oracle license While I am not an attorney, my understanding is that the Oracle license suits your purpose. Running a Servlet container like Tomcat for serving Web & REST requests on a common ...
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Integratable business planning web-app with API

It's important to customize the business plan's block This may not be a direct answer, but cloud tools such as kintone or Zoho Creator are flexible online databases (aPaas) that can be built up with ...
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Pen Testing for REST API

The free alternative that you can look at is SoapUI. For broadly understood security testing I'd consider a stack (eg. consisting of w3af, mitmproxy) rather than one single thing. SPOCK supports ...
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Is there a true successor alternative to svanoort/pyresttest?

Tavern From the documentation : Automated RESTful API testing A command-line tool and Python library and Pytest plugin for automated testing of RESTful APIs, with a simple, concise and flexible YAML-...
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Nutritional tables API recommendation

My favorite catalog of public APIs is ProgrammableWeb Doing a quick search there, here are some APIs that might cater to your needs: Nutritionix ESHA Nutrition Database CS50 If these aren't what ...
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Are ESB still worth as communication layer? Which ones?

I don't know, I don't have enough details. As you are using SFTP, Samba and Google Cloud Storage it seems to me that you are moving .CSV and probably ingesting them through SSIS. Then you are also ...
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Free tool/framework/program to create high quality rest API documentation?

The best place to document your API is generally within the code that implements that API - it is the place where the documentation is most likely to stay in step with the implementation. This is ...
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Command line tool to download via HTTP documents paginated by RFC 5988

In the meantime I managed to get a bash script working, for the particular server I'm trying to read anyway: #!/bin/bash function CURL { curl -D headers.tmp $1 } LINK=$1 while [ ! -e $LINK ] do ...
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Programmatically generate and share rich proposal documents

Invoice Ninja has such options for proposals as I understand although personally I have not used the proposals function myself.. I can however wholeheartedly recommend the application as we have been ...
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Use laravel to create a REST-API?

Hey I have been working on Laravel for my finals project and I've learned quite a bit in the process, so I'll try to answer. As I understand, you need something to filter results from database or ...
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Choosing the framework to an IDE type of web gui

Java Applets The Java Applet route is nearly dead. All the web browser makers are phasing out support for Java Applet and similar plugin execution environments such as Flash and Silverlight because ...
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Java: basis rest-service standalone

You can create a spring boot application which has in-built tomcat server and you can easily write the rest service with minimum configuration.
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Java: basis rest-service standalone

You can embed Jetty and use it like a standalone HTTP server (without all the Servlet stuff). Embedded Jetty is a perfect web server to use something like this. It does a good job of the HTTP stuff, ...
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What software can I use to build a recommendation engine with data access via REST?

You can use MonoDevelop to create a .NET application, using RestSharp as a library for accessing the data. Both, MonoDevelop and RestSharp are OpenSource.
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PHP/Java/C++ frameworks for declarative SQL to REST API binding

Pay a look at http://www.bravo-kernel.com/2015/04/how-to-build-a-cakephp-3-rest-api-in-minutes/ I've used CakePHP in the past to make a fast & easy GUI to access the DB, but didn't tried the REST ...
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Self hosted service to monitor a HTTP endpoint (for change) and trigger an event

I would recommend http://www.phpservermonitor.org http://docs.phpservermonitor.org/en/latest/intro.html Easy to setup and easy to use with log retention etc. However it does not have REST calls as a ...
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Which tool would you use for producing REST API docs from Java code?

MireDot is designed for this. Input: Jax-rs, Spring Web-mvc, Jackson code/configuration files Output: HTML and RAML among other options Requirements 1/2/3 are fulfilled but optional requirements 4/5/...
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Which tool would you use for producing REST API docs from Java code?

I would take a very close look at: doxygen It can generate HTML, LaTex, RTF (MS-Word), PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages It supports Javadoc style documentation It is ...
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