A powerful, new feature introduced in Stripes v1.7 is the ability to easily create RESTful services using Stripes.  Stripes REST services have all of the capabilities that other Java REST frameworks have (JAX-RS, DWR, etc) but include all of the powerful features provided within Stripes – simple binding and validation, lifecycle management, and dead-simple convention-based implementation.  

Creating a simple RESTful service

The most effective way to show how to create a RESTful service using Stripes is to show our Calculator example implemented using RESTful action beansContinuing along the line of our basic Quickstart Calculator example, this page will show how to create the same kind of calculator using Stripes' RESTful ActionBeans.  Let's show you the code and then break it down piece by piece:

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