Previous sections on @Produces and @Consumes referred to MIME media types of representations and showed resource methods that consume and produce the Java type String for a number of different media types. However, String is just one of many Java typ…

The Jersey client API is a high-level Java based API for interoperating with RESTful Web services. It makes it very easy to interoperate with RESTful Web services and enables a developer to concisely and efficiently implement a reusable client-side s…

Jersey JSON support comes as a set of JAX-RS MessageBodyReader<T> and MessageBodyWriter<T> providers distributed with jersey-json module. These providers enable using three basic approaches when working with JSON format: POJO support JAXB base…

Since a resource is represented as a Java type it makes it easy to configure, pass around and inject in ways that is not so intuitive or possible with other client-side APIs. The Jersey Client API reuses many aspects of the JAX-RS and the Jersey impl…

To utilize the client API it is first necessary to create an instance of a Client, for example: Client c = Client.create(); Configuring a Client and WebResource The client instance can then be configured by setting properties on the map returned from…

As you probably already know, Jersey uses MessageBodyWriters and MessageBodyReaders to parse incoming request and create outgoing responses. Every user can create its own representation but... this is not recommended way how to do things. XML is prov…

Parameters of a resource method may be annotated with parameter-based annotations to extract information from a request. A previous example presented the use @PathParam to extract a path parameter from the path component of the request URL that match…

Previous sections have introduced the use of @Context. The JAX-RS specification presents all the standard JAX-RS Java types that may be used with @Context. When deploying a JAX-RS application using servlet then ServletConfig, ServletContext, HttpServ…

Root resource classes are POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) that are annotated with @Path have at least one method annotated with @Path or a resource method designator annotation such as @GET, @PUT, @POST, @DELETE. Resource methods are methods of a reso…

Maven Dependencies The following Maven dependencies need to be added to the pom: <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId> <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId> <version>1.19.1</version> </dependency>…