jREST

jREST ofers a type-safe mapping of HTTP-parameters to Java-parameters. HTTP methods are mapped to Java methods.

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Features

Type-safety in web-applications
• Forget Servlets
Web-enable your POJOS in three steps
• 1. call your web-methods get(..), put(...), post(...) and delete(..)
• 2. annotate your classes to tell jREST how your variable is called on the web, e.g. get(@RestParameter("age") int customerAge )
• 3. register an instance of your POJO in the RestServer (e.g. restserver.register("customer", new POJO() );
• when a user calls http://server:port/custimer?age=13 the jREST-framework will call POJO.get( 13 ).
• error handling is performed in jREST: if a param doesn't match it's type, an error will be thrown
Full control over the response body

Download

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jREST builds on:

Java 5.0
Jetty

License

jREST is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, Feb. 1999. We reserve the right to release jREST in parallel under different licenses.

Acknowledgements

• Initial idea and proof-of-concept-implementation: Max Völkelt
• European Projects supporting this research:
    
      Knowledge Web          NEPOMUK

Further Information

A paper that (at least partially) describes jREST is availbale here: http://www.xam.de/2005/12_voelkel_semweb4j_DERISem05.pdf