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RE: [Jersey] JAX-RS == REST? Or not? (was Re: [Jersey] What HATEOAS actually means)

From: Markus Karg <markus.karg_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:14:34 +0100

> But I do not think this is done by proclaiming that since something is
> not REST, it can not be included in JAX-RS, unless this is what JAX-RS
> specification and reference implementation project state as the goal.

Well, actually JAX-RS means "Java API for RESTful WebServices", so I have to
disagree in that point. If JAX-RS would mean "anything useful that can be
done with http" (what it doesn't) then I would agree with you.

> So: developers involved with JAX-RS process: is there such strict
> relationship?

Actually this is not a question of what developers think but of what is
found on https://jsr311.dev.java.net/ ("Summary: JAX-RS: Java API for
RESTful Web Services") and on https://jersey.dev.java.net/ ("Jersey is the
open source (under dual CDDL+GPL license), production quality, JAX-RS (JSR
311) Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services.").

> How does JSR-311 position itself here?

Look at above two links and you know the answer.

> Am I right to
> assume that it is more along "inspired by REST" ("that other web
> service thing that is not SOAP") than strictly defined by REST?

From what is found on those web sites, you are wrong, sorry.

>
> -+ Tatu +-
>
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