In the lab @ http://javajee.com/setting-up-the-environment-for-developing-rest-web-services-with-jersey-using-maven, you setup the environment and executed a REST service.

Below are the important files generated, as you can see from the eclipse Project Explorer:

Jersey is a popular JAX-RS implementation.

Jersey is the open source, production quality, JAX-RS (JSR 311) Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services.

In addition to being the Reference Implementation, Jersey also provides an API so that developers may extend Jersey to suit their needs.

You can download JAX-RS from Jersy Homepage at jersey.java.net. You can also set it up using a build tool such a maven.

Java API for XML – Restful web services (JAX–RS) is the standard specification for developing REST web services.

JAX-RS uses annotations to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints. Important JAX-RS annotations can be used @ http://javajee.com/important-jax-rs-annotations.

A Queue is a first in first out (FIFO) data structure, as we have already seen.

BlockingQueue is a queue that additionally supports operations that wait for the queue to become non-empty when retrieving an element, and wait for space to become available in the queue when storing an element.

BlockingQueue methods come in four forms:

1. those that throws an exception,

Problem

Create three threads

• one that print '1' for 5 times.

• one that print '2' for 5 times.

• one that print '3' for 5 times.

Need to implement coordination between them so that  1, 2 and 3 should be printed in order from the three threads:

1

2

3

1

2

3

...

Hint: The order should be same theoretically and practically. Putting a sleep while printing might work in some cases, but it cannot be guaranteed always.