Category: Web Frameworks

Handling Generified Collections in Jersey JAX-RS

It is quite possible many developers have run into this problem with Jersey, not really a problem, but limitations of a programming language. I remember from school days where C++ Templates had quite a few reference books and it always kept me away from using STL containers 🙂 In Java, we have Generics since 1.5 … Continue reading Handling Generified Collections in Jersey JAX-RS →

Accessing RESTful services configured with SSL using RestTemplate

SSL enabled RESTful services are quite easier to develop and test using Jersey, Grizzly and RestTemplate. Jersey (resource development) Grizzly Web Server (resource configuration and deployment) Spring 3 RestTemplate backed by Commons HTTP Client (resource access) In a moment, you will notice how all these nicely fit the bill. Let us start with the POM … Continue reading Accessing RESTful services configured with SSL using RestTemplate →

RestTemplate, the Spring way of accessing RESTful services

The central API for accessing RESTful services in Spring 3 is RestTemplate. It is like any other template mechanism provided by Spring for the client side access. The default implementation uses the java.net package for creating HTTP requests. RestTemplate can be backed by Commons HttpClient using ClientHttpRequestFactory. Using Commons HttpClient as the backend implementation supports … Continue reading RestTemplate, the Spring way of accessing RESTful services →

Jersey 1.0.3 improves WADL support

Jersey 1.0.3 was released this week. This release has quite a few interesting new features and improvements to some of its existing functionality. Paul's blog entry gives the specifics of this release. One of the cool features in this release is the ability to inject WadlApplicationContext in resources. This provides access to the WADL JAXB … Continue reading Jersey 1.0.3 improves WADL support →

LoanDB – loan originations system reference implementation

LoanDB is a loan originations system reference implementation. This project will be developed using Java technology frameworks such as Spring (Web Beans in future?), Hibernate (JPA), CXF (JAXWS) and Jersey (JAXRS). The concepts are based on my original toy implementation for the loan processing NetBeans tutorial. The tutorial was primarily focused on developing JPA and … Continue reading LoanDB – loan originations system reference implementation →

Spring Framework 3 reaches milestone1

Spring Framework 3.0 M1 was released last week during the SpringOne Americas event, which looks very promising with EL and REST becoming top themes. Lot of coverage on the event has been blogged, and you can find one of my favorite entry by Solomon here. Juergen outlines some of the new features implemented in this … Continue reading Spring Framework 3 reaches milestone1 →

Jersey 1.0 final ships – production quality RI for JSR 311 API

Today, Paul announced in his blog about the availability of Jersey 1.0. I have been waiting for this release like many others. The Jersey team delivered a pretty solid implementation and this implementation has been tested by the user community to a greater extent. This project can be considered as a blueprint for similar JSR … Continue reading Jersey 1.0 final ships – production quality RI for JSR 311 API →

Jersey Client API – made for each other

In my earlier blog entry on Jersey, I used HTTPClient API and curl command line utility as the clients. I had not mentioned about the Jersey Client API. It is part of the Jersey distribution. I would prefer using Jersey Client API as it is modeled around the concepts of JAX-RS spec. Let us quickly … Continue reading Jersey Client API – made for each other →

Developing Apache CXF and JPA services in NetBeans 6.1 IDE

Apache CXF is an open services framework. It is more than just a Web Services stack. Its simple, powerful, and promising. Today, the CXF project graduated from incubation as a top-level Apache project. It has made several stable releases since its incubation. I know projects which still prefer to use first generation Axis due to … Continue reading Developing Apache CXF and JPA services in NetBeans 6.1 IDE →