RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Declaratively adding links to the resource representation

We are now ready with all the necessary measures for using the Jersey declarative hyperlink feature. Let's get started on using the Jersey annotation in a recourse class to declaratively generate links in the resource representation generated at runtime.

Take a look at the following Department resource class. This class is almost the same as the one that we discussed a while ago in the Programmatically building entity body links using JAX-RS APIs section. One difference that you may find in the Department resource class used in this section is the presence of the @org.glassfish.jersey.linking.InjectLink annotation. This is used for generating hypermedia links in the resource representation ...