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

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. Prerequisites The following stuff is needed to run the following examples and code samples ...

November 25, 2010 · 8 min · 1630 words · Micha Kops