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RESTful service with JAX-RS (and JPA 2 for the access to the data)

This is the first part of two, which have for purpose to create a RESTful service with JAX-RS (part 1) and to access it in JavaFX (part 2)

In this first part, we will create a RESTful service using JAX-RS and because this service will have  an access to a database, we will use JPA 2.0.

To do that, we are going:

• to create the database and one table
• to create a data source 
• to create the JPA entity and the persistence.xml
• and to create the RESTful service which will call the entity