| Re: [jetty-users] RESTful web services with Jetty |
Hi Martin, Thanks so much! It’s great to hear that the Jersey/Jetty setup has been working well for you. As I mentioned, my experience in this area with Java is near-nil although it seemed to me like this should be a great setup. I wonder why there are so few examples? I really do appreciate your offer to share some code. I’ve spent a little time trying to get a dusty old example to work with newer versions of Jetty and Jersey, but I’m getting errors and with my newb-ness the solution isn’t obvious. As for my web service, it should be fairly simple (although I will need SSL and some yet-to-be-determined authentication mechanism, if it’s worth mentioning). Since the Websockets standard continues to evolve, I’m pretty sure I need Jetty 7.4.4 or later to take advantage of the latest Websockets spec. I’ll also be running the Jetty embedded in my server, if it makes any difference. If you had any code to share that just demonstrates how recent versions of Jetty and Jersey should be properly glued together, that would probably be a great help. If you think it would be better to email code to me personally, I can build a clean and simple Jersey/Jetty sample that I can post back to the list for archival. Thanks! Jeremy jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: jetty-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jetty-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hewitt On 8 Nov 2011, at 21:38, Jeremy Johnson wrote: Hello list, I’m looking for guidance on the best approach for implementing a RESTful webservice with Jetty. I should start by saying that I’m a veteran .NET developer, but Jetty and server-side Java development are completely new to me. I’ve selected Jetty to provide a web API for a new server project as I needed an efficient embedded webserver with excellent support for the emerging Websocket standard. In addition to Websocket support, the web API exposed by my server needs to be RESTful. In looking around, I can find a few older examples of REST frameworks such as Jersey or RESTlet with Jetty, but these are few and in general there seems to be little discussion of RESTful web services with Jetty. I’ve been leaning towards Jersey, but the relative lack of examples makes me wonder if I should be considering something else.
Thanks! Jeremy Jeremy, We use Jetty and Jersey for our primary REST API and you're right, there's not much by way of examples. We've pieced together a handful of techniques, including some nifty little bits like determining the response type by the file extension of the request and so on. The Jetty setup is actually quite simple, Jersey takes care of a lot of the automatic configuration & service discovery etc. We're actually very happy with the pairing, we've been using it for almost two years now and we haven't hit any limitations. I'm happy to show you as much of our code as I can, if you have an idea of where you'd want to start? Martin |