Sadly, the basic Java web profile, which Tomcat 9 implements, does not support JAX-RS, it does not include the javax.ws.rs.* packages, and without playing with POM files or adding JAR files to the ...

Many Java professionals are interested in learning the basics about RESTful Web services, but they often find tutorials that are overly complicated. In this quick tip, we’re going right back to the ...

Part 2 of this four-part series on Java SE Web services showed how to use the JAX-WS API to develop SOAP-based Web services. JAX-WS also supports RESTful-based Web services, which this article ...

This post launches a four-part series introducing you to Java SE 6's support for Web services. Later in the series we'll build SOAP-based and RESTful-based Web services and explore advanced Web ...

There's also new support for the Java API for XML RESTful Web Services 2.0 (JAX-RS 2.0), which allows developers to configure the client to access REST endpoints. Version 2.0 introduces a new and ...

REST promises to make Web services available using existing Internet standards. The SOAP -based approach involves a range of emerging standards, not all of which will be adopted.

But API logic is the essence of the informational side of the equation, and following an architectural style like REST makes determining this logic a lot simpler. And though you could go another ...