Paul Sandoz

(5251) JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services

Technical long talk 50 min

Wednesday, 2008-06-25, 11:00 - 11:50, Arena 6

Paul Sandoz - Sun Microsystems Inc. (speaker)

Topics

• Middleware
• Web services
• Integration and interoperability frameworks and techniques

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Abstract

Lightweight RESTful approaches have emerged as a popular alternative to 
SOAP-based technologies for deployment of services on the Internet. However, 
development of such services with the Java platform is significantly more 
complex than development of SOAP-based services, due to the low-level nature of 
the current platform APIs.

The goal of the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) is to provide a 
high-level declarative programming model for such services that is easy to use 
and encourages development according to REST tenets. Services built with this 
API are deployable with a variety of Web container technologies and benefit from 
built-in support for best-practice HTTP usage patterns and conventions.

This session provides a brief REST primer, followed by an overview of the JAX-RS 
API that leads developers through the design process for a sample RESTful 
service. The API discussion is illustrated with live code demonstrations using 
Jersey, the JAX-RS reference implementation.