Reviews for RESTful Java with JAX-RS

1. Thorough introduction

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2010

   The book goes trough the very technical details of the REST spec. With enough detail on every aspect.
   It includes labs and examples to try out for each section.
   
   I found it to be very easy to follow and understand. And it seems to cover every aspect of REST that I was expectting and I was implementing REST in a pet project straight away.
   
   Two minor negative points are the reference to RESTeasy in all examples. The author is involved in the project and it is a good framework which is fair enough but I would have prefered the examples to be with the more established Jersey or CXF. However he does refer to both of them often in the book and provides exampels and description of these frameworks later in the book.
   
   The other negative point is that the examples are using low level java (streams etc) and servlet syntax and methods. It is understandable to be generic in a book as it needs to cater for many people, and to emphasise the actual issue at hand. However I would personally have preferred real life examples using higher level frameworks which is what you would encounter in day to day tasks. The book does however detail later on how to integrate Spring etc.
   
   On the whole I recommened this book as an intro to REST or reference in the future.