$ curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/mp-jsonb-configuration/api/users
JSON-B Configuration
This examples shows how to customize jsonb for a JAX-RS Application.
JSONB is the new jakartaee-api:8.0 standard for json
serialization/deserialization. Few annotations are needed and
JsonbConfig offers many configurations.
Run and test Endpoint
the application can be run with mvn clean install tomee:run if port
8080 is available you can invoke the following endpoint:
that should respond with the following json:
[
{
"Id":1,
"Name":"user 1",
"Registration":"2018 - 12 - 28"
},
{
"Id":2,
"Name":"user 2",
"Registration":"2018 - 12 - 28"
}
]
@ApplicationPath
JAXRS entry point class, as follows jaxrs will load all the annotated
@Path classes and methods without specifying them.
import jakarta.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Application;
@ApplicationPath("api")
public class JAXRSApplication extends Application {
}
@Path Rest resource
Simple jaxrs class with a GET endpoint
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import jakarta.ejb.Stateless;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Consumes;
import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import org.superbiz.model.User;
@Path("users")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Stateless
public class UserService {
@GET
public List<User> users() {
List<User> users = new ArrayList<>();
User user1 = new User(1, "user 1");
User user2 = new User(2, "user 2");
users.add(user1);
users.add(user2);
return users;
}
}
JSONB Configuration
Implementing ContextResolver<>` you can customize jaxrs defaults, in this
example we are going to customize JSONB serialization/deserialization
import jakarta.json.bind.Jsonb;
import jakarta.json.bind.JsonbBuilder;
import jakarta.json.bind.JsonbConfig;
import jakarta.json.bind.config.PropertyNamingStrategy;
import jakarta.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver;
import jakarta.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
@Provider
public class JSONBConfiguration implements ContextResolver<Jsonb> {
private Jsonb jsonb;
public JSONBConfiguration() {
// jsonbConfig offers a lot of configurations.
JsonbConfig config = new JsonbConfig().withFormatting(true)
.withPropertyNamingStrategy(PropertyNamingStrategy.UPPER_CAMEL_CASE)
.withDateFormat("yyyy - MM - dd", Locale.ENGLISH);
jsonb = JsonbBuilder.create(config);
}
@Override
public Jsonb getContext(Class<?> type) {
return jsonb;
}
}
JsonbConfig offers many configurations.
Accessing the rest endpoint
The test deploys the webapp to TomEE embedded with Arquillian and invokes the /users endpoint
package org.superbiz.rest;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient;
import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.Deployment;
import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
import org.jboss.arquillian.test.api.ArquillianResource;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.ShrinkWrap;
import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.WebArchive;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.superbiz.JAXRSApplication;
import org.superbiz.JSONBConfiguration;
import org.superbiz.model.User;
@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class UserServiceTest {
@ArquillianResource
private URL base;
@Deployment(testable = false)
public static WebArchive app() {
return ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class)
.addClasses(UserService.class, JAXRSApplication.class, JSONBConfiguration.class, User.class);
}
@Test
public void get() throws IOException {
final String message = WebClient.create(base.toExternalForm()).path("api/users").get(String.class);
System.out.println(message);
final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy - MM - dd");
// test withDateFormat("yyyy - MM - dd")
Assert.assertTrue(message.contains(sdf.format(new Date())));
// test withFormatting(true)
Assert.assertTrue(message.contains(System.getProperty("line.separator")));
}
}
Running
Running the example can be done from maven with a simple `mvn clean install' command run from the `mp-jsonb-configuration' directory.
When run you should see output similar to the following:
Running org.superbiz.rest.UserServiceTest
INFO: Starting TomEE from: /tmp/arquillian-apache-tomee-24910
INFO: Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/11.0.25]
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-53035"]
INFO: Configuring enterprise application: /path/to/tomee/examples/mp-jsonb-configuration/target/tomee-embedded/0/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887
INFO: Enterprise application "/path/to/tomee/examples/mp-jsonb-configuration/target/tomee-embedded/0/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887" loaded.
INFO: Deployed Application(path=/path/to/tomee/examples/mp-jsonb-configuration/target/tomee-embedded/0/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887)
INFO: Provider{clazz=org.superbiz.JSONBConfiguration, discovered=true, singleton=false}
INFO: REST Application: http://localhost:53035/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887/api -> org.superbiz.JAXRSApplication
INFO: Service URI: http://localhost:53035/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887/api/users -> EJB org.superbiz.rest.UserService
INFO: GET http://localhost:53035/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887/api/users -> List<User> users()
[
{
"Id":1,
"Name":"user 1",
"Registration":"2026 - 09 - 22"
},
{
"Id":2,
"Name":"user 2",
"Registration":"2026 - 09 - 22"
}
]
INFO: Undeploying app: /path/to/tomee/examples/mp-jsonb-configuration/target/tomee-embedded/0/4835cda6-1e53-4232-ad75-25e7dd844887
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 2.056 s -- in org.superbiz.rest.UserServiceTest
Results:
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
Inside the jar
jakartaee-api:8.0 brings in all the dependencies needed to spin up a
working REST application.
If we look at the jar built by maven, we’ll see the application itself is quite small:
$ jar tvf target/mp-jsonb-configuration-10.0.0-M1-SNAPSHOT.war
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:10 CET 2018 META-INF/
134 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 WEB-INF/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/model/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/rest/
1165 Fri Dec 28 19:36:06 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/model/User.class
402 Fri Dec 28 19:36:06 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/JAXRSApplication.class
1194 Fri Dec 28 19:36:06 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/rest/UserService.class
1701 Fri Dec 28 19:36:06 CET 2018 WEB-INF/classes/org/superbiz/JSONBConfiguration.class
1224 Fri Dec 28 18:28:32 CET 2018 WEB-INF/web.xml
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:10 CET 2018 META-INF/maven/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:10 CET 2018 META-INF/maven/org.superbiz/
0 Fri Dec 28 19:36:10 CET 2018 META-INF/maven/org.superbiz/mp-jsonb-configuration/
1791 Fri Dec 28 19:10:44 CET 2018 META-INF/maven/org.superbiz/mp-jsonb-configuration/pom.xml
128 Fri Dec 28 19:36:08 CET 2018 META-INF/maven/org.superbiz/mp-jsonb-configuration/pom.properties
This single jar could be deployed any any compliant Java EE
implementation. In TomEE you’d simply place it in the
${tomee.home}/webapps/ directory.