Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS

© Sanjay Patni 2017

Sanjay Patni, Pro RESTful APIs, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2665-0_4

4. Introduction to JAX-RS

Sanjay Patni¹ 

(1)UCSC Excention, Santa Clara, California, USA

This chapter introduces basic concepts about JAX-RS. At the end there are exercises using XML and JSON representations with JAX-RS.

JAX-RS Introduction

Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) is a Java programming language API spec that provides support in creating web services according to the REST architectural pattern. JAX-RS is a collection of interfaces and Java annotations that simplifies development of server-side REST applications. By using JAX-RS technology, REST applications are easier to develop and easier to consume when compared to other types of distributed systems. ...