# Jakarta RESTful Web Services

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-restful-web-services/  
**Provider:** Jakarta EE — https://apis.io/providers/jakarta-ee/  
**Documentation:** https://jakarta.ee/specifications/restful-ws/

Jakarta RESTful Web Services is one of 6 APIs that [Jakarta EE](https://apis.io/providers/jakarta-ee/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include REST, Specification, and Web Services. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Jakarta RESTful Web Services (formerly JAX-RS) is the API specification for developing web services that follow the REST architectural pattern. It defines a set of Java APIs and annotations that enable the development and deployment of RESTful web services on the Jakarta EE platform.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://jakarta.ee/specifications/restful-ws/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/jakartaee/rest
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/jakarta-ee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Jakarta EE APIs (5)

- [Jakarta JSON Processing](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-json-processing/)
- [Jakarta JSON Binding](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-json-binding/)
- [Jakarta WebSocket](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-websocket/)
- [Jakarta Servlet](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-servlet/)
- [Jakarta Validation](https://apis.io/apis/jakarta-ee/jakarta-validation/)

## Tags

REST, Specification, Web Services

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