RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Reading and writing large binary objects using Jersey APIs

When you work on enterprise-grade business applications, you may often want to build RESTful web APIs for reading and writing large binary objects, such as images, documents, and various types of media files. Unfortunately, the JAX-RS API does not have standardized APIs for dealing with large binary files. In this section, we will see offerings from the Jersey framework to store and retrieve images files. These APIs are generic in nature and can be used with any large binary file.