Resteasy 3.0-beta-2 has been released.  Follow the links from our main jboss.org page to download and view the documentation.  Here are the highlights:

  • Added a new ResteasyClientBuilder class to make it easier to create HTTPS/SSL connections on the client side
  • Extensive work on OAuth 2.0 support including tight AS7 integration.

You can find out more about our OAuth 2.0 stuff here, and the distribution comes with an extensive example.  Here’s the overall features of it:

  • Turn an existing servlet-form-auth-based web application into an OAuth 2.0 provider.
  • Provide Distributed Single-Sign-On (SSO) from a central authentication server. Log in once, and you can securely access any browser-based app configured to work in the domain.
  • Provide Distributed Logout. Following one link from any application can log you out of all your distributed applications configured to use SSO.
  • Web apps can interact securely with any remote restful service by forwarding access tokens through the standard Authorization header.
  • Access tokens are digitally signed by the oauth2 framework and can be used to access any service configured to work in the domain. The tokens contain both identity and role mapping information. Because they are digitally signed, there’s no need to overload the central authentication server with each request to verify identity and to determine permissions.

What’s next for Resteasy?  Next release I’ll be focusing on getting it up to date with the latest JAX-RS 2.0 snapshot.  I also have to get started on my O’Reilly book.