Emberjs with a Java REST backend

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I am looking into Java (possibly Scala) for a project that will use Ember and ember-data. I know I can write a backend to format the JSON, but I was wondering if there are any Java packages for Java more capable for building the JSON strings in a format that will utilize the DS.RESTAdapter more effectively without building something completely custom?

Something similar to Rails Active Model Serializers would be ideal, or a JSON serializer and a replacement REST adapter for Ember.

Just asking you all before I need to build something from scratch. Thanks!

I have not been a Java dev for about 10 years, so I am very much out of the loop. I have seen JAX-RS mentioned, and the basic toJSON(), also I just found xstream.codehaus.org/json-tutorial.html but I am doing basic research now, I may attempt to build a basic server this weekend if I can get an idea of wich libraries to try and implement. — awildeep
– awildeep, Commented Jun 6, 2013 at 17:47
Spring does the Job in our Application. If Jackson is found in the classpath, spring automatically uses Jackson to do the serialisation. — Thomas Junk
– Thomas Junk, Commented Jun 6, 2013 at 17:59
@Lilith2k3 Does Jackson's output format match what ember-data is looking for via DS.RESTAdapter? Are there any customizations needed for this? — awildeep
– awildeep, Commented Jun 6, 2013 at 22:26
Yes and No. With Spring we are dealing with simple POJOs. So the structure of the output via Jackson is dependent on the POJO you created. So if you want [{name:"Doe", firstname:"John"}] you have to handover a List<Person> to Jackson. Hence Spring is MVC, you have a controller ( POJOs with annotations marking a class as Controller and annotations marking methods as endpoints) returning either a view (in our case JSPs) or data to serialize. So a possible method would be Public List<Person> showAllFriends() and Spring uses Jackson to produce the JSON output. — Thomas Junk
– Thomas Junk, Commented Jun 7, 2013 at 6:59

Scott B · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-21 02:54:54Z

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I would look into any of the following frameworks or libraries to create REST APIs with java and/or scala:

Play Framework
Vert.x
Spray
Dropwizard (which uses Jetty, Jersey, and Jackson)

answered Jul 21, 2013 at 2:54

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cdeszaq Over a year ago

I would add Grails to that list. It's not Scala or Java, but if Scala is an option, Groovy (the language Grails is implemented in) is quite close. Grails doesn't have a native JSON API marshaller (yet), but neither do most of the other JVM frameworks.

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