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RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

by Balachandar Bogunuva Mohanram
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Generating Swagger from JAX-RS

Both the WADL and RAML tools that we discussed in the previous sections use the JAX-RS annotations metadata to generate the documentation for the APIs. The Swagger framework does not fully rely on the JAX-RS annotations but offers a set of proprietary annotations for describing the resources. This helps in the following scenarios:

  • The Swagger core annotations provide more flexibility for generating documentations compliant with the Swagger specifications
  • It allows you to use Swagger for generating documentations for web components that do not use the JAX-RS annotations, such as servlet and the servlet filter

The Swagger annotations are designed to work with JAX-RS, improving the quality of the API documentation ...

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