I would suggest that learning annotations is well worth the effort :-). I think one would be hard pressed to say annotations are "new" any more...
> On Jan 3, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Imran Bashir <imran_1981_at_aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Craig,
> Thank you for your e-mail. so I will be exposing existing old Java code as REST service and this newly written code will be maintained by others who are still using old Java( no annotations). and that's why I wanted to do it in Jersey without Annotations.
> Sincerely
> Imran
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig McClanahan <craigmcc_at_gmail.com>
> To: users <users_at_jersey.java.net>
> Sent: Fri, Jan 3, 2014 12:13 am
> Subject: [Jersey] Re: Jersey without Annotations
>
> Inquiring minds would like to know ... why in the world would you want to tie yourself so closely to the internal APIs of one particular JAX-RS implementation. Indeed, why bother with JAX-RS if you don't like the annotations -- that is a key value add for developer productivity.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
>
>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Imran Bashir <imran_1981_at_aol.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> Thank you for your e-mail. Could you please provide me some example that would be great.
>>
>> Sincerely
>> Imran
>> Sent from AOL Mobile Mail
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill O'Neil <oneil5045_at_gmail.com>
>> To: users <users_at_jersey.java.net>
>> Sent: Thu, Jan 2, 2014 03:35 PM
>> Subject: [Jersey] Re: Jersey without Annotations
>>
>>
>> You can bind Resources programmatically without using annotations. https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/user-guide.html#d0e2435
>>
>> If you want to work directly with the Request, Response objects you should be able to do this. It will be a little more trouble to get cookie, header, path, and query parameters. It should be doable though.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Imran Bashir <imran_1981_at_aol.com> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I wanted to know can I develop a rest web service using Jersey without Annotation.
>> Sincerely
>> Imran
>