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JAX-RS overview

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JAX-RS overview

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- [Instructor] The Java API for RESTful web services or JAX-RS provides an API for development of web services built using the REST architectural style. Java EE developers can use JAX-RS to simplify the development of REST-based services using an approach centered around POJOs, annotations and the HTTP protocol. The JAX-RS API allows developers to built simple POJOs that are annotated to support the construction of a REST API. The annotations are primarily applied to classes known as resources and their methods known as resource methods. These classes provide an implementation for REST API resources and endpoints found in the design of an API. JAX-RS annotations map to parts of the HTTP request providing developers easy access to data sent in the request. This eliminates the need to parse an HTTP request. Most JAX-RS implementations are built on top of the servlet API. However, they abstract away lower level requests…

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