Chapter 10. JAX-RS: Advanced Topics and Example

The Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, defined in JSR 311) is designed to make it easy to develop applications that use the REST architecture. This chapter describes advanced features of JAX-RS. If you are new to JAX-RS, see Chapter 13, “Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS,” in The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Basic Concepts before you proceed with this chapter.

JAX-RS is part of the Java EE 6 full profile. JAX-RS is integrated with Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform (CDI), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology, and Java Servlet technology.

The following topics are addressed here:

• “Annotations for Field and Bean Properties of Resource Classes” on page 193

• “Subresources ...

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