November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
Content preview from RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition
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Introducing JAX-RS Implementation Framework Extensions
In the last two chapters, we discussed the standard JAX-RS APIs for building RESTful web APIs. JAX-RS is a specification for RESTful web services with Java, not a product. In the previous chapters, we gave an overview of popular JAX-RS implementations, such as Jersey, Apache CXF, RESTEasy, Restlet, and so on. Also, we have been using Jersey for running the JAX-RS samples that we built in the previous chapters.
As you may know, Jersey is one of the many reference implementations available in the market today for the JAX-RS specification. In reality, the Jersey framework is more than just a JAX-RS reference implementation. It offers additional features and utilities to further simplify ...