Easiest frameworks to implement Java REST web services [closed]

Answer 1

Restlet sounds like it should provide what you're looking for:

• Support for client and server (in a relatively symmetric api)
• Smart url binding
• mime type understanding (given accepted mime types, it will ask your resources for their representation in that type)
• Supports JAX-RS annotations (just like Jersey)

Answer 2

There's JBoss' new RESTEasy library. It appears to be under rapid development since its initial launch. I've no idea if it's any good; it's on my 'check it out' list.

Answer 3

I haven't used it personally but some teams that I work with are using Spring 3 MVC. REST in Spring 3: @MVC looks like a good blog post overview. The RESTful features include "URI Templates", "Content Negotiation", "HTTP Method Conversion", "ETag support" and more.

Edit: Also, see this question: Can anyone recommend a Java web framework that is based on MVC and supports REST ?

Answer 4

Restlet also support annotations in its 2.0 version, both on the client and server-side. The JAX-RS API is also supported as an extension.

Here is a simple example for server-side:

public class HelloWorldResource extends ServerResource {

    @Get
    public String represent() {
        return "hello, world";
    }

}

On the client-side:

// Outputting the content of a Web page  
new ClientResource("http://www.restlet.org").get().write(System.out);

For further documentation, check this page.

Answer 5

My favourite is Spring MVC, you have support for both, client and server side... And you have Android support too =)

For example, you can see a example of Spring Android here

Answer 6

UPDATE: Xydra Restless is not longer maintained +++ If your are using Goolge AppEngine before they release a "reserve instance" feature, you might consider Xydra Restless which has few features but loads fast.