Creating a REST Client Step-by-Step using JAX-RS, JAX-B and Jersey

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Creating a REST Client Step-by-Step using JAX-RS, JAX-B and Jersey

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Often in a developer’s life there is a REST service to deal with and nowadays one wants a fast and clean solution to create a client for such a service.

The following tutorial shows a quick approach using JAX-RS with its reference implementation, Jersey in combination with JAX-B for annotation driven marshalling between XML or JSON structures and our Java-Beans.

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Tags: jax-b, jax-rs, jaxrs, jersey, jsr-311, marshalling, maven, rest, tutorial, webservice
Posted in Java, Web Services | 9 Comments »

A look at Google’s Protocol Buffers

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Protocol Buffers are a serialization format developed by Google- you might ask if another IDL is really needed here – is Google barking at the wrong tree?

But protocol buffers offer some advantages over data serialization via XML or JSON – Google says they (compared to XML)..

are 3 to 10 times smaller
are 20 to 100 times faster
provide generated data access classes for programmatic use
provide backward compatibility

So lets play around a little with protocol buffers in Java and build a small application that serializes and deserializes some data using a defined format..

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Tags: example, google, GWT, idl, Java, marshalling, maven, protocol buffers, serialization, tutorial
Posted in Development | 2 Comments »