Creating the Theater web application

We are now going to create the web application that will stay in the movie theater, so the Store application, our central module, will interact with all the movie theaters through this application. Essentially, it will be responsible to validate and consume tickets, showing available movie exhibitions and seats.

A RESTful Web Service, as defined by JSR-311, will provide this interaction. The Java API that implements Representational State Transfer (REST) Web Services is JAX-RS. Oracle WebLogic 12c comes with Jersey 1.9, which is the JAX-RS reference implementation and also includes JSON APIs for processing and streaming data.

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Despite what many believe, JAX-RS was introduced in Java EE 5 but was only set ...

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