Further Information - The Java EE 6 Tutorial, Volume I

Document Information

Part I Introduction

2. Using the Tutorial Examples

Part II The Web Tier

3. Getting Started with Web Applications

4. Java Servlet Technology

5. JavaServer Faces Technology

6. Introduction to Facelets

7. Using JavaServer Faces Technology in Web Pages

8. Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology

9. Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications

Part III Web Services

10. Introduction to Web Services

11. Building Web Services with JAX-WS

12. Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS and Jersey

What are RESTful Web Services?

Where Does Jersey Fit In?

Creating a RESTful Root Resource Class

Developing RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS and Jersey

Overview of a Jersey-Annotated Application

The @Path Annotation and URI Path Templates

More on URI Path Template Variables

Responding to HTTP Resources

The Request Method Designator Annotations

Using Entity Providers to Map HTTP Response and Request Entity Bodies

Using @Consumes and @Produces to Customize Requests and Responses

The @Produces Annotation

The @Consumes Annotation

Extracting Request Parameters

Overview of JAX-RS and Jersey: Further Information

Example Applications for JAX-RS and Jersey

Creating a RESTful Web Service

Creating a RESTful Web Service Using NetBeans IDE

Creating a RESTful Web Service From Examples Without NetBeans IDE

Creating a RESTful Web Service From Maven Archetype

Example: Creating a Simple Hello World Application Using JAX-RS and Jersey

JAXRSHelloWorld Example: Discussion

Example: Adding on to the Simple Hello World RESTful Web Service

HelloWorld3 Example: Discussion

JAX-RS in the First Cup Example

Real World Examples

Further Information

Part IV Enterprise Beans

13. Enterprise Beans

14. Getting Started with Enterprise Beans

15. Running the Enterprise Bean Examples

Part V Persistence

16. Introduction to the Java Persistence API

17. Running the Persistence Examples

18. The Java Persistence Query Language

Part VI Security

19. Introduction to Security in the Java EE Platform

20. Using Java EE Security

21. Securing Java EE Applications

22. Securing Web Applications

Part VII Java EE Supporting Technologies

23. Introduction to Java EE Supporting Technologies

24. Transactions

25. Resource Connections

Further Information

The information in this tutorial focuses on learning about JAX-RS and Jersey. If you are interested in learning more about RESTful Web Services in general, here are a few links to get you started.

The Community Wiki for Project Jersey has loads of information on all things RESTful. You'll find it at http://wikis.sun.com/display/Jersey/Main.
Fielding Dissertation: Chapter 5: Representational State Transfer (REST), at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm.
Representational State Transfer, from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer.
RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. Available from O'Reilly Media at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/.

Some of the Jersey team members discuss topics out of the scope of this tutorial on their blogs. A few are listed below:

Earthly Powers, by Paul Sandoz, at http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/category/REST.
Marc Hadley's Blog, at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mhadley/
Japod's Blog, by Jakub Podlesak, at http://blogs.sun.com/japod/category/REST.

You can always get the latest technology and information by visiting the Java Developer's Network. The links are listed below:

Get the latest on JSR-311, the Java API's for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS), at https://jsr311.dev.java.net/.
Get the latest on Jersey, the open source JAX-RS reference implementation, at https://jersey.dev.java.net/.

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