RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Jersey framework extensions

Let's start our discussions on Jersey with a baby step. If you want to use any Jersey-specific feature in an application, then you will have to add a dependency to the appropriate Jersey libraries. For instance, to use a Jersey configuration class such as org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig in your application, you need to depend on the jersey-container-servlet JAR. If the consuming application uses Maven for building the source, then specifying a dependency to the jersey-container-servlet JAR in the Project Object Model (POM) file may look like the following:

<dependency> <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId> <!-- module --> <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId> <!-2.26: latest ...