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Apache Wink 1.0 is a complete Java based solution for implementing and consuming Rest REST based Web Services. The goal of the Wink framework is to provide a reusable and extendable set of classes and interfaces that will serve as a foundation on which a developer can efficiently construct applications.

Wink consists of a Server module for developing Rest REST services, and of a Client module for consuming Rest REST services. It cleanly separates the low-level protocol aspects from the application aspects. Therefore, in order to implement and consume Rest REST Web Services the developer only needs to focus on the application business logic and not on the low-level technical details.

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Wink is a framework for the simple implementation and consumption of Rest REST web services. Rest REST is an acronym that stands for REpresentational State Transfer. Rest REST web services are "Resources" that are identified by unique URIs. These resources are accessed and manipulated using a set of "Uniform methods". Each resource has one or more "Representations" that are transferred between the client and the service during a web service invocation.

The central features that distinguish the Rest REST architectural style from other network-based styles is its emphasis on a uniform interface, multi representations and services introspection.

Wink facilitates the development and consumption of Rest REST web services by providing the means for modeling the service according to the Rest REST architectural style. Wink provides the necessary infrastructure for defining and implementing the resources, representations and uniform methods that comprise a service.

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REST Architecture

For a detailed understanding of the Rest REST architecture refer to the description by Roy Fielding in his dissertation, The Design of Network-based Software Architectures
www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

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. In particular, Chapter 5 Representational State Transfer (REST) describes the principles of the architecture.

REST Web Service

Figure 1: Rest REST Web service design structure

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Figure 1 demonstrates the design principles and components that comprise a Rest REST web service. Wink reflects these design principles in the implementation of web services.

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titleJAX-RS Specification Document

For more information on the JAX-RS functionality, refer to the JAX-RS specification document, available at the following location:
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr311/index.html

JAX-RS Compliancy

Apache Wink 1.0 is a complete implementation of the JAX-RS v1.0 specification.

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