RESTful Java Web Services Security

First functional example

Now that we have our development environment all set up, it is time to get your hands dirty and write the first RESTful web service. As we are using JBoss, let's use the RESTEasy implementation for JAX-RS. We will develop a very simple example; let's imagine you want to implement a service to save and search for people's information.

First, we create a simple Person domain class that uses JAXB annotations. JAXB marshals/unmarshals objects between XML and Java. For this example, we'll store these instances in an in-memory cache instead of a database. In JEE, this typically represents a table in a relational database, and each entity instance corresponds to a row in that table, as presented in the following code:

package com.packtpub.resteasy.entities; ...