So I have been using JAX-RS for the past few months now, and it was a little confusing to get started with.  To fix that, I’ve created a simple project on github that contains a minimal configuration for Maven in order to get a war file and have Jersey be the JAX-RS provider.

The other reason to do this is because the Jersey documentation is not very clear as to what you have to pull in from Maven Central in order to actually use the dependencies in a program.  Turns out, it’s just a single dependency, but finding it and making sure that it works is another matter.

Lastly, I just came across this page, which also has some good JAX-RS examples.  I hope that they help somebody!