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Eclipse Jersey

The Jersey RESTful Web Services, formerly Glassfish Jersey, currently Eclipse Jersey, framework is an open source framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java. It provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS Reference Implementation.

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Project Jersey
DevelopersOracle Corporation and Eclipse Foundation
Stable release
4.0.0 / November 5, 2025 (2025-11-05)
Written inJava (programming language)
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inJava 7 or later
TypeWeb framework
LicenseEclipse Public License 2.0
Websiteprojects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.jersey/
Repositorygithub.com/eclipse-ee4j/jersey/

The Jersey RESTful Web Services, formerly Glassfish Jersey, currently Eclipse Jersey,1 framework is an open source framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java. It provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339 & JSR 370) Reference Implementation.2

Overview

The following components are part of Jersey:

  • Core Server: For building RESTful services based on annotation (jersey-core, jersey-server, jsr311-api)
  • Core Client: Aids you in communicating with REST services (jersey-client)
  • JAXB support
  • JSON support
  • Integration module for Spring and Guice
References

References

  1. Lyons, Will. "Moving Forward with Eclipse GlassFish at Jakarta EE". blogs.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  2. "Jersey". Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
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