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Jersey is the open source, production quality, JAX-RS (JSR 311, JSR 339) Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services.

Jersey is an open source framework for developing RESTful web services in Java and the production-ready reference implementation for JAX-RS 1.1 (JSR-311) and JAX-RS 2.0 (JSR-339). It is included in GlassFish open source application server and WebLogic application server from Oracle, and can be used with other web servers including the lightweight HTTP server included in JDK.

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What's the difference between text/xml vs application/xml for webservice response

This is more of a general question about the difference between text/xml and application/xml. I am fairly new to writing webservices (REST - Jersey). I have been producing application/xml since it is what shows up in most tutorials / code examples…
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JAX-RS / Jersey how to customize error handling?

I'm learning JAX-RS (aka, JSR-311) using Jersey. I've successfuly created a Root Resource and am playing around with parameters: @Path("/hello") public class HelloWorldResource { @GET @Produces("text/html") public String get( …
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Difference between JAX-RS and Spring Rest

I confused with the difference between JAX-RS (well, maybe should use Jersey to do comparison since JAX-RS is just spec) and Spring for Restful services. I tried to search for more information online and it become more confusing. My company is using…
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What does Provider in JAX-RS mean?

Could anyone explain to me what a JAX-RS Provider is and what ‘@Provider’ annotation does? I have been reading documentation but I cant get it. If there are resource classes that service the incoming requests, what do Providers do? How are they…
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How to access parameters in a RESTful POST method

My POST method looks like this: @POST @Consumes({"application/json"}) @Path("create/") public void create(String param1, String param2){ System.out.println("param1 = " + param1); System.out.println("param2 = " + param2); } When I create a…
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what's the correct way to send a file from REST web service to client?

I've just started to develop REST services, but I've come across a difficult situation: sending files from my REST service to my client. So far I've gotten the hang of how to send simple data types (strings, integers, etc) but sending a file is a…
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RESTful on Play! framework

We are planning a project primarily serving content to mobile apps, but need to have a website. My question is whether is makes sense to use Jersey or Restlet to develop REST APIs for our mobile apps, and then use Play! to serve the website. Or…
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Input and Output binary streams using JERSEY?

I'm using Jersey to implement a RESTful API that is primarily retrieve and serve JSON encoded data. But I have some situations where I need to accomplish the following: Export downloadable documents, such as PDF, XLS, ZIP, or other binary…
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Dependency injection with Jersey 2.0

Starting from scratch without any previous Jersey 1.x knowledge, I'm having a hard time understanding how to setup dependency injection in my Jersey 2.0 project. I also understand that HK2 is available in Jersey 2.0, but I cannot seem to find docs…
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What is the difference between @PathParam and @QueryParam

I am newbie in RESTful jersey. I would like to ask what is the different between @PathParam and @QueryParam in jersey?
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Jackson + Builder Pattern?

I'd like Jackson to deserialize a class with the following constructor: public Clinic(String name, Address address) Deserializing the first argument is easy. The problem is that Address is defined as: public class Address { private…
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What difference between Jersey vs jax-rs

I really cant understand what really is jersey.. What I know is that Jax-RS is an API for building REST web services, and jersey? I got some information and all say the same: "jersey is an implementation of Jax-RS". But what it means? If jax-rs is…
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Jersey: Print the actual request

How can I view the actual request that Jersey generates and sends to the server? I am having issues with a particular request and the fellow running the webserver asked to see the full request (with headers and the such).
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How can I grab all query parameters in Jersey JaxRS?

I am building a generic web service and need to grab all the query parameters into one string for later parsing. How can I do this?
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Jersey client: How to add a list as query parameter

I'm creating a Jersey client for a GET service that has a List as query parameter. According to the documentation, it's possible to have a List as a query parameter (this information is also at @QueryParam javadoc), check it out: In general the…
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