August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 47m
English
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A RESTful Web Service as a JAX-RS Resource
The servlet API, the grizzled workhorse for producing Java websites, is still nimble enough to support RESTful web services as well. There are more recent APIs, among them JAX-RS (Java API for XML-RESTful Services). JAX-RS relies upon Java annotations to advertise the RESTful role that a class and its encapsulated methods play. Jersey is the reference implementation (RI) of JAX-RS. RESTEasy, a JBoss project; Apache Wink; and Apache CXF are other implementations. JAX-RS has APIs for programming RESTful services and clients against such services; the two APIs can be used independently. This section focuses on the service-side API. The first JAX-RS example supports only GET requests, but the second JAX-RS example supports all of the CRUD operations.
A First JAX-RS Web Service Using Jersey
JAX-RS web services are resources
that can be published with the Tomcat and Jetty web servers. The first example has
one resource, the class Adages, and two supporting Java classes: the
deployment class RestfulApplication and the POJO class Adage. Exactly how these three classes
interact is covered next.
The RestfulAdage class (see Example 2-5) extends the
JAX-RS Application class (line 2), which implements a getClasses method that enumerates the individual resources
deployed in the WAR file (line 3). In this example, there is but one such resource, Adages, but there
could be arbitrarily many (line 4).
Example 2-5. The JAX-RS Application subclass that lists Adages.class ...
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