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When dealing with JAX-RS resources are normally assembled completely in memory before being put onto the wire for transmission. If the resulting response fits into one single chunk the transmission is accomplished in one go - if the content is bigger than 16kB it will be split into several chunks of that size. You can see the difference in the response headers where a one-go-transmission contains the Content-Length-header (where the server announces the size of the content to be transmitted) while a chunked transmission lacks the Content-Length header but contains a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header. ...

Content Negotiation in JAX-RS allows you to leverage the information in the client requests Accept header to map that request to a specific handler-method within your application. In combination with vendor-specific media types this approach can be used for versioning of an API. ...