RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

RESTEasy framework extensions

RESTEasy is another popular implementation of the JAX-RS specification available under the ASL (Apache) 2.0 license, which can run in any Servlet container. RESTEasy also comes with additional features on top of the plain JAX-RS functionalities. 

To seamlessly integrate the RESTEasy features, the following Maven dependencies must be configured in the project in pom.xml under the dependencies element, as shown ahead:

<!-- RESTEasy Core APIs--><dependency>   <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>   <artifactId>resteasy-jaxrs</artifactId>   <version>RELEASE</version> </dependency> <dependency>    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>    <artifactId>resteasy-jaxb-provider</artifactId>    <version>RELEASE</version> </dependency> ...