Annotating the Resource Class

The following code is the contents of the com.sun.jersey.samples.helloworld.resources.HelloWorldResource class:

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;

@Path("/helloworld")
public class HelloWorldResource {

		@GET
		@Produces("text/plain")
		public String getClichedMessage() {
			return "Hello World";
	}
}

In this example, the following annotations are processed at runtime:

• The @Path annotation specifies that the Java class will be hosted at the URI path /helloworld.

• The @GET annotation specifies that the Java method will process HTTP GET requests.

• The @Produces annotation specifies that the Java method will produce content identified by the MIME media type text/plain.