Further Information

The information in this tutorial focuses on learning about JAX-RS and Jersey. If you are interested in learning more about RESTful Web Services in general, here are a few links to get you started.

• The Community Wiki for Project Jersey has loads of information on all things RESTful. You'll find it at http://wikis.sun.com/display/Jersey/Main.

• Fielding Dissertation: Chapter 5: Representational State Transfer (REST), at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm.

• Representational State Transfer, from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer.

• RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby. Available from O'Reilly Media at http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260/.

Some of the Jersey team members discuss topics out of the scope of this tutorial on their blogs. A few are listed below:

• Earthly Powers, by Paul Sandoz, at http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/category/REST.

• Marc Hadley's Blog, at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mhadley/

• Japod's Blog, by Jakub Podlesak, at http://blogs.sun.com/japod/category/REST.

You can always get the latest technology and information by visiting the Java Developer's Network. The links are listed below:

• Get the latest on JSR-311, the Java API's for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS), at https://jsr311.dev.java.net/.

• Get the latest on Jersey, the open source JAX-RS reference implementation, at https://jersey.dev.java.net/.