Conductor vs Jersey: What are the differences?

Developers describe Conductor as "A microservices orchestration engine that runs in the cloud *". Conductor is an orchestration engine that runs in the cloud. On the other hand, *Jersey** is detailed as "*A REST framework that provides a JAX-RS implementation *". It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

Conductor and Jersey can be categorized as "Microservices" tools.

Some of the features offered by Conductor are:

• Allow creating complex process / business flows in which individual task is implemented by a microservice.
• A JSON DSL based blueprint defines the execution flow.
• Provide visibility and traceability into the these process flows.

On the other hand, Jersey provides the following key features:

• Track the JAX-RS API and provide regular releases of production quality Reference Implementations that ships with GlassFish
• Provide APIs to extend Jersey & Build a community of users and developers
• Make it easy to build RESTful Web services utilizing Java and the Java Virtual Machine.

Conductor is an open source tool with 2.21K GitHub stars and 670 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Conductor's open source repository on GitHub.