CXF has an initial implementation of JAX-RS (JSR-311): Java API for RESTfulWeb Services. JAX-RS provides a more standard way to build RESTful services in Java.

A demo called restful_jaxrs can be found in CXF distribution.

Resource class

A resource class is a Java Class annotated with JAX-RS annotations to represent a Web resource. A typical resource class in JAX-RS looks like below:

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