Difference between JAX-RS and Spring Rest

Question

I confused with the difference between JAX-RS (well, maybe should use Jersey to do comparison since JAX-RS is just spec) and Spring for Restful serv

Answer 1

I worked with both Jersey Rest, spring rest and Jersey Rest with spring. Both of them are very rich frameworks with nice implementations. I would suggest it's better to go with Spring rest if you are using other Spring services such as ORM ,Spring security and DI etc. Both are spring libraries, so I feel a little bit easy for managing code and dependencies

JAX-RS pros:

• JSR standard can be run without servlet container (grizzly, simple, ...)
• Production-ready implementations (jersey, cxf, resteasy, restlet, ...) designed for REST applications only

Spring MVC pros:

• Provide "full" stack, not just REST facilities

• Dependency injection / AOP / Transactions

• Pluggable view templates (JSP, freemarker, velocity, ...)

You can check more on the following links

1. https://www.infoq.com/articles/springmvc_jsx-rs
2. Why use JAX-RS / Jersey?