demo-rest-jersey-spring @

Prerequisites:

MySQL 5.5 or 5.6
IDE ( preffered Eclipse 4.3+)
JDK 1.7 (if you want to use Jetty 9 with the jetty-maven-plugin from project)
Maven 3.*

Install and run the project

download/clone the project
prepare the database
- import in MySQL the self-contained file that comes with the project - demo-rest-jersey-spring / src / main / resources / input_data / DumpRESTdemoDB.sql
- username/password - rest_demo/rest_demo
change to the root folder of the project and excute the following maven command
- mvn clean install jetty:run -Djetty.port=8888 -DskipTests=true
- now the REST api is up and running with Jetty on localhost:8888

Note: you could run a similar configuration from Eclipse if you have the m2e plugin installed - see pic below

Note: after you mvn install the application, you can deploy the generated .war file in any web container like Tomcat for example.

Testing the project

From Maven (failsafe plugin)

Run the following maven command on the console in the root directory of the project

mvn clean install verify -Djetty.port=8888

the same in Eclipse Eclipse run configuration

SoapUI (recommended)

download and install SoapUI
import the REST project in SoapUI - demo-rest-jersey-spring / src / main / resources / soapui / Test-Demo-REST-Jersey-with-Spring-soapui-project.xml
check out our How to test REST API with SoapUI video tutorial on YouTube

Go to blog post

Tutorial – REST API design and implementation in Java with Jersey and Spring - complete explanation of this implementation.

demo-rest-jersey-spring @

Prerequisites:

Install and run the project

Testing the project

From Maven (failsafe plugin)

SoapUI (recommended)

Go to blog post

Changelog

License