Re: [jetty-users] RESTful web services with Jetty

[Martin Hewitt <martin.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeremy,

We use embedded Jetty too, I'll clean up some examples and put them on gist.

Martin

On 8 November 2011 22:50, Jeremy Johnson <jeremy.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks!
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> Jeremy
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> On 8 Nov 2011, at 21:38, Jeremy Johnson wrote:
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> Hello list,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any insights would be most welcome.  (I also wouldn’t turn down any example
> code, as I’m still seeing some errors with the samples I’ve found using
> older versions of Jersey and Jetty).
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> Thanks!
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> Jeremy
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> Jeremy,
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> We use Jetty and Jersey for our primary REST API and you're right, there's
> not much by way of examples.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Martin
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