From the course: Java EE: RESTful Service with JAX-RS 2.0

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Headline features of JAX-RS 2.0

Headline features of JAX-RS 2.0

From the course: Java EE: RESTful Service with JAX-RS 2.0

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Headline features of JAX-RS 2.0

- [Instructor] JAX-RS 2.0 is a feature-rich Java EE 7 API that contains many more features than we can possibly cover in just one course. In this video, we will glance at some of the headline features of this API. The JAX-RS API provides annotations and interfaces that when used with plain old Java objects exposes them as web resources. Functionality is added that defines the characteristics of resources and handles the mapping of HTTP methods to resource methods. The annotation-driven nature of JAX-RS fits the modern many in which Java EE configures application functionality, and the liberal use of annotations, builders, and factories facilitates the ease by which RESTful clients and services can be developed. The JAX-RS Specification provides for both the client and a server API that implements the required functionality for the interchange of resources. The client API is a high-level abstraction over the HttpURLConnection class and adds functionality that makes the construction of…

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