[SOLVED] Contract First Approach with Jersey

Contract First Approach with Jersey

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

Solution

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.