Marshalling

Often in a developer’s life there is a REST service to deal with and nowadays one wants a fast and clean solution to create a client for such a service. The following tutorial shows a quick approach using JAX-RS with its reference implementation, Jersey in combination with JAX-B for annotation driven marshalling between XML or JSON structures and our Java-Beans. Prerequisites The following stuff is needed to run the following examples and code samples ...

Protocol Buffers are a serialization format developed by Google- you might ask if another IDL is really needed here – is Google barking at the wrong tree? But protocol buffers offer some advantages over data serialization via XML or JSON – Google says they (compared to XML).. are 3 to 10 times smaller are 20 to 100 times faster provide generated data access classes for programmatic use provide backward compatibility ...