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Saturday, March 11, 2017

RESTful Web Services - Java (JAX-RS)

JAX-RS stands for JAVA API for RESTful Web Services. JAX-RS is a JAVA based programming language API and specification to provide support for created RESTful Web Services. Its 2.0 version was released on the 24th May 2013. JAX-RS uses annotations available from Java SE 5 to simplify the development of JAVA based web services creation and deployment. It also provides supports for creating clients for RESTful Web Services.

Specifications

Following are the most commonly used annotations to map a resource as a web service resource.
Sr.No. Annotation & Description
1
@Path
Relative path of the resource class/method.
2
@GET
HTTP Get request, used to fetch resource.
3
@PUT
HTTP PUT request, used to create resource.
4
@POST
HTTP POST request, used to create/update resource.
5
@DELETE
HTTP DELETE request, used to delete resource.
6
@HEAD
HTTP HEAD request, used to get status of method availability.
7
@Produces
States the HTTP Response generated by web service. For example, APPLICATION/XML, TEXT/HTML, APPLICATION/JSON etc.
8
@Consumes
States the HTTP Request type. For example, application/x-www-formurlencoded to accept form data in HTTP body during POST request.
9
@PathParam
Binds the parameter passed to the method to a value in path.
10
@QueryParam
Binds the parameter passed to method to a query parameter in the path.
11
@MatrixParam
Binds the parameter passed to the method to a HTTP matrix parameter in path.
12
@HeaderParam
Binds the parameter passed to the method to a HTTP header.
13
@CookieParam
Binds the parameter passed to the method to a Cookie.
14
@FormParam
Binds the parameter passed to the method to a form value.
15
@DefaultValue
Assigns a default value to a parameter passed to the method.
16
@Context
Context of the resource. For example, HTTPRequest as a context.
Note − We have used Jersey, a reference implementation of JAX-RS 2.0 by Oracle, in the RESTful Web Services - First Application and RESTful Web Services - Methods chapters.

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