Resteasy is a JBoss.org project aimed at providing productivity frameworks for developing client and server RESTful applications and services in Java. It is mainly a JAX-RS implementation but you'll find some other experimental code in the repository.
The project page can be found at http://resteasy.jboss.org
JAX-RS
RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification. JAX-RS is a new JCP specification that provides a Java API for RESTful Web Services over the HTTP protocol.
Read the entire specification here
The JAX-RS code is in the jaxrs directory.
Getting started with RESTEasy
- Read a book
- Check out the examples in the repository.
- Read the documentation.
Documentation
To read the documentation you can read it online. This is generated automatically from the maven build
A wiki exists. You can find it here
Issues
Issues are kept in JIRA
Build
After pulling down a clone of the Resteasy repository run
Currently it can be built only with JDK 1.7. JDK 1.8 breaks ant scriptlets because script engine changed from rhino to nashorn.
Requirements
- Java Cryptography Extension JCE
Contribute
You are most welcome to contribute to RESTEasy!
Read the Contribution guidelines