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REST in Java

When developing a REST service in Java, we have at least a couple of options for the framework we could use. The most popular will be pure JEE7 with JAX-RS or Spring Framework with its Spring Boot. You can use either of them or mix them together. Let's look at those two now in more detail, starting with JAX-RS.

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