RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Dynamically configuring JAX-RS resources during deployment

You have learned multiple resource configurations and packaging models for JAX-RS applications in the previous chapter under the A quick look at the packaging of JAX-RS applications section. A common approach is to subclass javax.ws.rs.core.Application and configure the RESTful resources by overriding the appropriate methods.

The Jersey framework  eases the configuration of resources via a custom class, org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig, which extends the JAX-RS core class,  javax.ws.rs.core.Application. We have used the Application class in the previous chapter for configuring a vanilla JAX-RS application. The ResourceConfig class offers many extra configuration features ...