Nowadays, using REST services with JSON is the most common method for data transfer between applications over the HTTP protocol and this is not a coincidence—this is fast and easy to do. It's an easy to read, easy to parse and, with JSON-P, easy to code!
The following recipes will show you some common scenarios and how to apply Java EE to deal with them.
This chapter covers the following recipes:
- Building server-side events with JAX-RS
- Improving a service's capabilities with JAX-RS and CDI
- Easing data and object representation with JSON-B
- Parsing, generating, transforming, and querying JSON objects using JSON-P
