Getting ready

Let's start by adding the right dependency to our project:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-container-grizzly2-http</artifactId>
            <version>2.26-b09</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
            <version>2.26-b09</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-media-sse</artifactId>
            <version>2.26-b09</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
            <version>8.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

You surely noticed that we are using Jersey here. Why? Because Jersey is the reference implementation for JAX-RS, which means that all JAX-RS specifications are first implemented through Jersey.

Moreover, with Jersey we can use Grizzly to start a small local server, which will be useful for this recipe, as we need just a few server features to show the SSE behavior.

Further on in this book, we will use a full GlassFish to build more JAX-RS recipes.