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In my earlier blog entry on Jersey, I used HTTPClient API and curl command line utility as the clients. I had not mentioned about the Jersey Client API. It is part of the Jersey distribution. I would prefer using Jersey Client API as it is modeled around the concepts of JAX-RS spec. Let us quickly [...]

Jersey is a JSR 311 reference implementation for the JAX-RS spec (The Java API for RESTful Web Services). The JSR development is nearing its completion, but for most part the RI is stable enough for developers to start playing with RESTful services. JAX-RS is an elegant API built around the powerful REST architecture and modeled [...]

Message brokering markets were once dominated by heavy weights and required huge investments by enterprises for implementing such solutions. Vendors made huge bucks out of it by selling such solutions and support. Is this still considered a niche market? I personally don’t think so. I am definitely not against vendors offering such solutions, but the [...]

Effective Java second edition finally started shipping this week. I dreamed of this day in one of my earlier blog post As predicted, it finally made it this year during JavaOne. Even this year, Joshua had a session on “More ‘Effective Java’” – third in a row since 2006. The book was published on May [...]