Having the basic of a REST based Java app

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A Java developer working with web app back-end development is required to have JavaEE development where the program design follows the RESTful architecture. To develop a RESTful application, follow useful tutorials and descriptions for JavaEE, choice of ServletContainers, framework description for developing RESTful web services such as Jersey, annotations that are used in a Java class for a JavaEE REST app, and the servlet naming and mapping in the project’s web.xml file. Some good tutorials that were beneficial to me were:

And some useful descriptions were:

At the time of preparing the Java RESTful app one should consider that the project’s Maven pom.xml file has the correct dependencies, as well as a right way to reference the application’s servlets in the web.xml file. One of the Maven dependencies that works as a ServletContainer and is the base for implementing a “Jax-RS with Jersey” is the jersey-container-servlet:

       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId>
            <version>2.29.1</version>
        </dependency>

The content of the web.xml file, which reference the Servlet being developed would then be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
         id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.packages</param-name>
            <param-value>com.javatpoint.rest</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

The good tutorial at https://www.javatpoint.com/jax-rs-example-jersey has a more complete description.

If an error is encountered when deploying the application to the application server, one can search on StackOverflow and with links such as:



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