REST Auxiliaries

This section details the following topics:

Auxiliaries for Development of RESTful Web Services
Accessing Registered JAX-RS Providers Outside the Context of an HTTP Request
Defining Resources Using the REST Auxiliaries
Defining Error Responses Using the REST Auxiliaries
Customizing Resource Representations Using the REST Auxiliaries
Paging for Collection Resources Using the REST Auxiliaries

The REST API component provides various auxiliaries which ease development of RESTful Web Services conforming to the common behaviors and definitions – utilities, service interfaces and common resource definitions are provided which enable resource representation customization, collection resource pagination, error handling and accessing available JAX-RS providers registered in the system.