31 JAX-RS: Advanced Topics and an Example

The Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, defined in JSR 339) 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 29, "Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS" before you proceed with this chapter.

JAX-RS is integrated with Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE (CDI), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology, and Java Servlet technology.

The following topics are addressed here:

• Annotations for Field and Bean Properties of Resource Classes

• Validating Resource Data with Bean Validation

• Subresources and Runtime Resource Resolution

• Integrating JAX-RS with EJB Technology and CDI

• Conditional HTTP Requests

• Runtime Content Negotiation

• Using JAX-RS with JAXB

• The customer Example Application