Learning More About RESTful Web Services

The information in this guide focuses on learning about 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://www.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/.