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I've been looking into JAX-RS lately because I really like the Java platform and a RESTful style of web development. I've read a lot about using JAX-RS for creating RESTful Web Services, but is it possible to use JAX-RS to create RESTful web sites? I guess more specifically, is it possible to use JAX-RS as a controller (to retrieve required data from the server) and then forward control to a view engine to render the appropriate HTML?
I've been googling around but haven't found any resources that show you how to do this.
Thanks for any insight/help.
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JAX-RS is only a specification and it needs a compatible implementation to be used. On the other hand, Spring MVC is a complete framework with REST capabilities. Like JAX-RS, it also provides us with useful annotations to abstract from low-level details.
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.
JAX-RS also provides annotations that allow you to use different methods depending on the media types of the request and response. The media type of the request body ( Content-Type header) is compared to the value(s) of @Consumes annotations.
JAX-WS is a fundamental technology for developing SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and RESTful (Web services that use representational state transfer, or REST, tools) Java Web services, where JAX-WS is designed to take the place of the JAVA-RPC (Remote Procedure Call) interface in Web services and Web-based ...
I think you are having difficulty with your google searches because not many people are doing this. JAX-RS was designed for web services, so developers don't think of using it as a controller for web applications. However, there is no reason it wouldn't work.
Check out this blog post: JAX-RS as the one Java web framework to rule them all?
I think it's exactly the kind of thing you are looking for.
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