JAX-RS Frameworks

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Shimi Bandiel picture Shimi Bandiel · Sep 17, 2008 · Viewed 38.7k times · Source

I've been doing some work with the JAX-RS reference implementation (Jersey). I know of at least two other frameworks (Restlet & Apache CXF).

My question is: Has anyone done some comparison between those frameworks and if so, which framework would you recommend and why?

Answer

James Strachan picture James Strachan · Sep 17, 2008

FWIW we're using Jersey as its packed full of features (e.g. WADL, implicit views, XML/JSON/Atom support) has a large and vibrant developer community behind it and has great spring integration.

If you use JBoss/SEAM you might find RESTeasy integrates a little better - but if you use Spring for Dependency Injection then Jersey seems the easiest, most popular, active and functional implementation.

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