Hi Jeremy, We use embedded Jetty too, I'll clean up some examples and put them on gist.
Martin On 8 November 2011 22:50, Jeremy Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > > Thanks so much! It’s great to hear that the Jersey/Jetty setup has been > working well for you. As I mentioned, my experience in this area with Java > is near-nil although it seemed to me like this should be a great setup. I > wonder why there are so few examples? > > > > I really do appreciate your offer to share some code. I’ve spent a little > time trying to get a dusty old example to work with newer versions of Jetty > and Jersey, but I’m getting errors and with my newb-ness the solution isn’t > obvious. As for my web service, it should be fairly simple (although I will > need SSL and some yet-to-be-determined authentication mechanism, if it’s > worth mentioning). Since the Websockets standard continues to evolve, I’m > pretty sure I need Jetty 7.4.4 or later to take advantage of the latest > Websockets spec. I’ll also be running the Jetty embedded in my server, if > it makes any difference. > > > > If you had any code to share that just demonstrates how recent versions of > Jetty and Jersey should be properly glued together, that would probably be a > great help. > > > > If you think it would be better to email code to me personally, I can build > a clean and simple Jersey/Jetty sample that I can post back to the list for > archival. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jeremy > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Hewitt > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:06 PM > To: JETTY user mailing list > Subject: Re: [jetty-users] RESTful web services with Jetty > > > > > > On 8 Nov 2011, at 21:38, Jeremy Johnson wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I’m looking for guidance on the best approach for implementing a RESTful > webservice with Jetty. I should start by saying that I’m a veteran .NET > developer, but Jetty and server-side Java development are completely new to > me. I’ve selected Jetty to provide a web API for a new server project as I > needed an efficient embedded webserver with excellent support for the > emerging Websocket standard. > > > > In addition to Websocket support, the web API exposed by my server needs to > be RESTful. In looking around, I can find a few older examples of REST > frameworks such as Jersey or RESTlet with Jetty, but these are few and in > general there seems to be little discussion of RESTful web services with > Jetty. I’ve been leaning towards Jersey, but the relative lack of examples > makes me wonder if I should be considering something else. > > Any insights would be most welcome. (I also wouldn’t turn down any example > code, as I’m still seeing some errors with the samples I’ve found using > older versions of Jersey and Jetty). > > > > Thanks! > > Jeremy > > > > > > Jeremy, > > > > We use Jetty and Jersey for our primary REST API and you're right, there's > not much by way of examples. > > > > We've pieced together a handful of techniques, including some nifty little > bits like determining the response type by the file extension of the request > and so on. > > > > The Jetty setup is actually quite simple, Jersey takes care of a lot of the > automatic configuration & service discovery etc. We're actually very happy > with the pairing, we've been using it for almost two years now and we > haven't hit any limitations. > > > > I'm happy to show you as much of our code as I can, if you have an idea of > where you'd want to start? > > > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > > _______________________________________________ jetty-users mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users
