title: Eclipse Jersey
text: # Eclipse Jersey
  
  The Jersey RESTful Web Services, formerly Glassfish Jersey, currently Eclipse Jersey, framework is an open source framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java. It provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339 & JSR 370) Reference Implementation.
  
  ## Overview
  
  The following components are part of Jersey:
  
  * Core Server: For building RESTful services based on annotation (jersey-core, jersey-server, jsr311-api)
  * Core Client: Aids you in communicating with REST services (jersey-client)
  * JAXB support
  * JSON support
  * Integration module for Spring and Guice
  