RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Specifying dependency to Swagger

To use Swagger in your Jersey 2 application, specify the dependency to swagger-jersey2-jaxrs jar. If you use Maven for building the source, the dependency to the swagger-core library will look as follows:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>com.wordnik</groupId> 
    <artifactId>swagger-jersey2-jaxrs</artifactId> 
    <version>1.5.1-M1</version>  
    <!-use the appropriate version here,  
    1.5.x supports Swagger 2.0 spec --> 
</dependency> 

You should be careful while choosing the swagger-core version for your product. Note that swagger-core 1.3 produces the Swagger 1.2 definitions, whereas swagger-core 1.5 produces the Swagger 2.0 definitions.

The next step is to hook the Swagger provider components into your Jersey application. This is ...