How to maintain the Spring Context while developing the spring REST API for Mobile Client

Question

I would like to know how much spring REST API is beneficial in developing the Android mobile client from the framework point of view. Mostly I am curious about how the context is maintained using Spring REST API for developing mobile client.

I heard using RSET API dropwizard in combination with Nginx server works better but I am not aware of these technologies.

Answer 1

We are using Spring MVC to create REST API for a mobile client and it is quite easy and straightforward.

Spring context is created on application deploy and lives the whole time. We are not using sessions, each REST API call is stateless, each request is signed with using HMAC in HTTP header.