With the exponential growth of the Web, REST as an architectural style has found its niche in the modern services landscape with its popularity poised to grow even further. JAX-RS is a new JCP specification that provides a Java API for RESTful Web services over the HTTP protocol. JAX-RS uses annotations on POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to map to the RESTful architectural style of presentation and facilitates lookup of distributed enterprise resources via Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). In this article I demonstrate a RESTful service-oriented architecture created to wrapper similar functionality as detailed in to enable a client application render an Adobe form and process form submissions abstracted away into Adobe Form Server Module (FSM) factory objects. Corollary to Service Endpoint implementations in JAX-WS, here we have JAX-RS annotated Web Resource classes (the RESTful term for a service) instantiated per each HTTP request that encapsulate the service functionality and Providers that transform the resource parameters and result content into runtime representations in a variety of media types...
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