# RESTful Web Services Support

This chapter describes how to create and run web services in OEPE which conform to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style using Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS).

This document contains the following sections:

- About REST Web Services

- Getting Started with REST Web Services

- Creating Projects Configured for REST

- Creating a REST Web Service

- Mapping Incoming Requests to Java Methods

- Customizing Media Types for the Request and Response Messages

- Validation and Quick Fix

- Content Assist

- Run-AS JAX-RS Support

- Generate a Java REST Client from a WADL