In this section, we're going to take a look at how to implement a REST resource using basic JAX-RS annotations. I'll show you how you can inject and use CDI beans in your JAX-RS resource implementation and show you how to properly use HTTP methods to model CRUD semantics, and of course we'll be running the web service within a Docker container:
Conceptual view of this section
We'll implement a REST API to get a list of books so that we'll be able to create new books, get a book by ISBN, update books, and delete a book.
We will create a basic project skeleton and prepare a simple class, which is called ...
