The Java REST annotations are annotations to help service
creators build REST style services. Frameworks which wish
to support REST can reuse these annotations just like the
JSR181 & JAX-WS annotations are used across implementations.
However, the idea with JRA is that many different frameworks
(web, XML/SOAP, etc) may want to expose REST style services.

It is recognized that REST is an architecture not an
implementation, and these annotations are geared around
HTTP. So technically they should be called the
Java HTTP Annotations, but then no one would no what we're
talking about, leading us to chose the less correct name
instead.

• Igor Vlasenko

• jra
• jra-javadoc