CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javaweb-servicesrestweb-applications
dido
dido

Reputation: 3407

Are RESTEasy, JAX-RS just tools to develop RESTful web services?

I'm learning about RESTful web services and there is a lot of terminology jumbled up in my head. Can someone briefly provide a distinction between the following technologies.

  1. RESTEasy
  2. JAX-RS & JAX-WS
  3. Jersey
  4. Restlet
  5. JAXB

If I want to develop a RESTful web service and have that web service be consumed by an Android app, which technologies from the above should I use? I do not want to use SOAP...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 926

Answers (2)

Randolph Chou
Randolph Chou

Reputation: 5

JAX-RS are mainly used for web services but you can use it as servlet as you like.

I have used Jersey with Freemarker to develop frontend website and it works perfectly.

I have seen some projects which use Jersey as backend web services and backbone.js to develop frontend website.

Upvotes: 0

bdoughan
bdoughan

Reputation: 149047

Can someone briefly provide a distinction between the following technologies?

JAX-WS (JSR-224)

This is the Java standard for SOAP web services which are different from RESTful web services. There are multiple implementations of this standard.

JAX-RS (JSR-311)

This is the Java standard for RESTful web services. There are multiple implementations of this standard which include:

JAXB (JSR-222)

This is the Java standard for converting objects to/from XML. All JAX-RS implementations leverage a JAXB implementation when the JAX-RS service returns Java objects that need to be converted to/from XML. Some even leverage it when converting to/from JSON. There are multiple implementations of this standard.

If I want to develop a RESTful web service and have that web service be consumed by an Android app, which technologies from the above should I use?

Any Java EE 6 compliant application server will all the components necessary to create a RESTful web service that can easily be consumed by an Android app. Below is a series of articles I wrote that should help:

Upvotes: 4

Related Questions