Dealing with legacy code is painful, but someone has to do it. I had to make a Restful WS (JSON objects passed everywhere) within a webapp supporting Java 5 and Spring 2.0.3 (a very old version!).
Recently I’ve been investigating about making WS with a framework called AppFuse, which implements the Apache CXF library to make SOAP and REST WS. AppFuse has an interesting documentation and it’s easy to read. But Apache’s library stopped supporting Java 5 since the version 2.7, so I had to configure the Servlet (web.xml file) circumventing the Spring Containter and declare all my JAX-RS Services there.
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