Chapter 4. Advanced Features in the JAX-RS API

In the previous chapter, we introduced you to JAX-RS APIs for building RESTful web services. This chapter is in continuation of what we discussed in the previous chapter. This chapter will take you further into the JAX-RS APIs, and some complex use cases and their solutions.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding subresources and subresource locators in JAX-RS
  • Exception handling in JAX-RS
  • Introducing validations in JAX-RS applications
  • Supporting custom request-response message formats
  • Asynchronous RESTful web services
  • Asynchronous RESTful web service client
  • Managing the HTTP cache in a RESTful web service
  • Understanding filters and interceptors in JAX-RS
  • Understanding the JAX-RS resource ...

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