Java API for RESTful Services

Java API for RESTful Services (JAX-RS)

JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services is a Java API that provides support in creating web services according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural pattern. Furthermore JAX-RS uses annotations to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints.

To Understand further about JAX-RS refer the document provided by oracle[1] which contain compressible information about JAX-RS.


You can find various implementation that are available in industry and well known implementation are

1) Apache CXF - an open source Web service framework provided by Apache Software Foundation.
2) Jersey - an implementation from Oracle.
3) ESTeasy - an implementation from JBoss.
4) Apache Wink, Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, the server module implements JAX-RS.


I will provide a sample implementation for REST Web Service using JAX-RS in near future blog.
Until that please keep on reading :)


[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/giepu.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_API_for_RESTful_Web_Services