29 Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS

This chapter describes the REST architecture, RESTful web services, and the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, defined in JSR 339).

JAX-RS makes it easy for developers to build RESTful web services using the Java programming language.

The following topics are addressed here:

• What Are RESTful Web Services?

• Creating a RESTful Root Resource Class

• Example Applications for JAX-RS

• Further Information about JAX-RS