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Sunday, December 9, 2012

JAX-RS With GlassFish Jersey

4:10:00 PM Posted by Satish , , , , , , , No comments
Jersey, reference implementation to develope RESTful web service based on the JAX-RS (JSR 311) specification.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to develop a simple RESTful web service with Jersey. I am going to use the following tools and technologies.
  • Jersey 1.8
  • JDK 1.7
  • Tomcat 7.0
  • Maven
  • Eclipse 
I am going to take you to the following areas in this tutorial.
  • Service Class and Mapping Configuration
  • Front Controller Configuration
  • Application Deployment
  • Testing
Before start coding let's create a dynamic web project using the following maven command.

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mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.techiekernel.rest -DartifactId=JAXRS-Jersey -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false

After executing, the project will be get created with pom.xml file. As I am using JDK 7 and annotations, I have to specify the updated maven plugin. After giving the Jersey dependency, the pom.xml looks as following.

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<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.techiekernel.rest</groupId>
  <artifactId>JAXRS-Jersey</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>JAXRS-Jersey Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>maven2-repository.java.net</id>
      <name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
      <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
      <layout>default</layout>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
      <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
      <version>1.8</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.1</version>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.5</source>
          <target>1.5</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
    <finalName>JAXRS-Jersey</finalName>
  </build>
</project>

Service Class and Mapping Configuration:

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package com.techiekernel.rest;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

@Path("/foobar")
public class FooBarService {
  @GET
  @Path("/{param}")
  public Response getMsg(@PathParam("param") String msg) {
 
    String output = "Jersey say : " + msg;
 
    return Response.status(200).entity(output).build();
 
  }
}

Front Controller Configuration:

In web.xml, register “com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer“, and puts your Jersey service folder under “init-param“, “com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages“.

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<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
  http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
  <display-name>JAXRS-Jersey</display-name>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>jersey-serlvet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
                     com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
                </servlet-class>
    <init-param>
         <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
         <param-value>com.techiekernel.rest</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
 
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>jersey-serlvet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/ws/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Application Deployment:

Now every thing is ready and time to build for creating a war file.

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mvn clean install;

On successful completion of the above command a war file will be get created in target folder. Copy the war file to webapp folder of your tomcat and start the tomcat.

Testing:

Once tomcat is started use the following url to access the web service.

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http://localhost:8080/JAXRS-Jersey/ws/foobar/foobar

Output:

Once you hit the url in the browser, you are going to get the following output.

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FooBar say : foobar

Source Code:

You can pull the code from GitHub.

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