Jersey w / Spring 3.0?

Question

I see some using jersey w / Spring. With Spring 3.0, annotations are now available so that RESTful APIs are directly in the controller. Why should I use jersey w / Spring?

Answer 1

Jersey pros:

• comes with JSR 311 specifications
• reference for JSR 311
• Restlet and RESTeasy are other implementations for JSR 311
• better tool (at least on Netbeans)
• it is integrated with Spring and Guice

EDIT

A (very nice) Comparison of Spring MVC and JAX-RS

Answer 2

Spring 3 is backward compatible, so you can use a jersey.

What you get does not bind your application to the API.