Java Jersey

Developing RESTful Web services that seamlessly support exposing your data in a variety of representation media types and abstract away the low-level details of the client-server communication is not an easy task without a good toolkit.
In order to simplify development of RESTful Web services and their clients in Java, a standard and portable JAX-RS API has been designed. Jersey RESTful Web Services framework is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation.

Jersey framework is more than the JAX-RS Reference Implementation. Jersey provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development. Jersey also exposes numerous extension SPIs so that developers may extend Jersey to best suit their needs.

Maven

Jersey is complete maven build. The following is tested for OS/X and should work on Linux/Unix. Assumed is that you have installed maven successful and also have the right location for the m2 libraries.

Creating a New Project from Maven Archetype

1. Open Terminal
2. Goto the directory where you wanna build the Jersey Simple Service (i.e. /Sources/Java/Jersey/Refmaven)
3. Type:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=jersey-quickstart-grizzly2 -DarchetypeGroupId=org.glassfish.jersey.archetypes -DinteractiveMode=false -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=simple-service -Dpackage=com.example -DarchetypeVersion=2.18

which should end-up with

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 15.289s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Jun 19 20:01:09 CEST 2015
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/126M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ 

The results are:

• A new simple-service project directory created in your current location.
• Project build and management configuration is described in the pom.xml located in the project root directory.
• Project sources are located under src/main/java.
• Project test sources are located under src/test/java.
• There are 2 classes in the project source directory in the com.example package:
  • The Main class is responsible for bootstrapping the Grizzly container as well as configuring and deploying the project's JAX-RS application to the container.
  • The MyResource class contains implementation of a simple JAX-RS resource.

MyResource class

package com.example;
 
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 
/**
 * Root resource (exposed at "myresource" path)
 */
@Path("myresource")
public class MyResource {
 
    /**
     * Method handling HTTP GET requests. The returned object will be sent
     * to the client as "text/plain" media type.
     *
     * @return String that will be returned as a text/plain response.
     */
    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String getIt() {
        return "Got it!";
    }
}

See also

Implementations of JAX-RS include:

• Apache CXF, an open source Web service framework
• Jersey, the reference implementation from Sun (now Oracle)
• RESTeasy, JBoss's implementation
• Restlet
• Apache Wink, Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, the server module implements JAX-RS
• WebSphere Application Server from IBM:
  • Version 7.0: via the "Feature Pack for Communications Enabled Applications"
  • Version 8.0 onwards: natively
• WebLogic Application Server from Oracle, see notes
• Apache Tuscany (http://tuscany.apache.org/documentation-2x/sca-java-bindingrest.html)
• Cuubez framework (http://www.cuubez.com)
• Everrest, Codenvy's Implementation