JAX-RS Basic Concepts

JAX-RS (JSR 311) is the latest JCP specification that provides a Java based API for REST Web services over the HTTP protocol. The JAX-RS specification is an annotation based server side API.

Applying JAX-RS to Apache Wink

Apache Wink is a full an implementation of the JAX-RS 1.0 specification. Apache Wink also provides specification, providing a rich set of features and expansions that extends extend and supplements supplement the JAX-RS specification. Apache Wink is designed to be an easy to use, production quality and efficient implementation.

The Apache Wink architecture enables the incorporation of custom functionality via the use of handlers that provide for the manipulation of requests, Apache Wink also provides a powerful client module for the consumption of REST web services and is bundled with a range of built-in Providers that enable the developer to quickly implement applications that make use of industry standard formats such as XML, ATOM, APP, RSS, JSON, CSV, HTML.

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