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32 Building RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS
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This chapter describes the REST architecture, RESTful web services, and
the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, defined in JSR 370).

JAX-RS makes it easy for developers to build RESTful web services using
the Java programming language.

The following topics are addressed here:

* link:jaxrs001.html#GIJQY[What Are RESTful Web Services?]
* link:jaxrs002.html#GILIK[Creating a RESTful Root Resource Class]
* link:jaxrs003.html#GIPZZ[Example Applications for JAX-RS]
* link:jaxrs004.html#GILIZ[Further Information about JAX-RS]
