Jersey REST Service
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Jersey is the JAX-RS API example implementation provided by Sun, while Spring REST is of course Spring's implementation of the same API/JSRs. The major difference is that Spring REST easily integrates into other Spring APIs (if you wish) such as.
There are a few noteworthy differences between them - you can "embed" JerseyResources(known in Spring asControllers) within each other, to enable a separate class that is responsible for the sub-path of a certain path, while this doesn't appear to be available in Spring right now (you have to define the full path). Also, in my opinion Jersey gives better "out of the box" error responses (such as why it can not map a JSON payload to a Java bean using Jackson) while Spring is a bit more configurable but plainer without some additional work.
In the end the difference in choosing between them usually comes down to - are you already or do you plan to integrate any other Spring libraries into your application? If so Spring REST is the way to go as you'll have a much easier time integrating it, otherwise it is really just personal preference which you'd prefer to use. Personally I like Jersey but the power of other related Spring projects (such aswhich I highly recommend) makes Spring the better choice. I don't think there will be a real determining factor in your case.
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