Build a RESTful Web service using Jersey and Apache Tomcat Yi Ming Huang with Dong Fei Wu, Qing GuoPublished on September 24, 2009 20 RESTful Web service introduction Representational State Transfer, or REST, was introduced and defined in 2000 by t…
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…
By default the life-cycle of root resource classes is per-request, namely that a new instance of a root resource class is created every time the request URI path matches the root resource. This makes for a very natural programming model where constru…
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…
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…
