Contract First Approach with Jersey

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I am currently working on a projects API layer with an existing REST services using JERSEY. Most of the initial services are created in a contract last approach utilizing jaxb annotations etc.. Lately, i was asked to do a contract first approach instead due to versioning concerns easier 3rd party integration by providing the schema to other clients.

can anyone provide a useful resource or a reading material for a contract first approach with REST as most of the stuff i find related to contract first approach points me to SOAP examples.

Thanks

yes Bill, basically what was requested is that i write the xsd first and from there generate the classes to be used via maven jaxb plugin. — geneqew, Dec 27 '11 at 05:40

BillRobertson42 · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-27T15:12:35.430

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Nothing wrong with using XSD to define your XML responses, however, you really need to consider you URI namespace for the problem domain. RESTful Web Services (O'Reilly 2007, Richardson & Ruby) has a couple of good chapters on this (chapters 4-6). There's a lot of other good stuff in this book.

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answered Dec 27 '11 at 05:47

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Thanks! ill have a look at the book – geneqew Dec 27 '11 at 06:24

Contract First Approach with Jersey

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