I’ve been rethinking using Eclipse as my Java & HTML5/JavaScript IDE of choice since discovering that NetBeans 7.3 supports both, and with integrated Chrome JavaScript debugging and Twitter Bootstrap, BackBone.js and Jersey RESTful WebServices support it seems too good to be true. But after getting a couple of building a couple of simple apps with NetBeans it could be time to wave goodbye to Eclipse plugin hell and say hello to NetBeans simplicity.
One thing I couldn’t figure out was why the CustomerDBSpring sample app and the CustomerRestfulService app were producing different JSON. It turns out it was all down to how Jersey was configured to convert Java to JSON. This guy describes the problem well and the first solution that I tried, but clearly that wasn’t a great long term option. The longer term solution was to use Jersey’s POJO support, which basically amounts to sticking this in your web.xml.
<init-param> <param-name>com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </init-param>
BTW I don’t usually blog on a Saturday night, not that I’m saying there is anything wrong with that, but its just that my wife is watching the final of Strictly Come Dancing 😦
Gerry McLarnon 