Creating a simple Restful api in Java

Question

I'm trying to create a simple Restful hello world api through intellij. I have created a maven project with the maven-archetype-quickstart and then in pom.xml I have added

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
  <artifactId>resteasy-jaxrs</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.7.Final</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Then in src->main->java->webservice I have two files: App.java

    package webservice;

/**
 * Hello world!
 *
 */
public class App 
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
    }
}

and BookRestService.java

package webservice;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;

@Path("/book")
public class BookRestService {
    @GET
    @Produces("text/plain")
    public String getBookTitle() {
        return "H2G2";
    }
}

I'm using jBoss-6.4. Jboss seems to start giving me the following message:

15:08:01,550 INFO  [org.jboss.ws.common.management] (MSC service thread 1-2) JBWS022052: Starting JBoss Web Services - Stack CXF Server 4.3.4.Final-redhat-1
15:08:01,824 INFO  [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS017100: Listening on 127.0.0.1:4447
15:08:01,824 INFO  [org.jboss.as.remoting] (MSC service thread 1-7) JBAS017100: Listening on 127.0.0.1:9999
15:08:01,827 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (MSC service thread 1-3) JBAS015012: Started FileSystemDeploymentService for directory /home/symeon/myprojects/applicationserver/jboss-eap-6.4-clean/standalone/deployments
15:08:02,113 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015961: Http management interface listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990/management
15:08:02,114 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990
15:08:02,115 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss EAP 6.4.0.GA (AS 7.5.0.Final-redhat-21) started in 5345ms - Started 153 of 191 services (57 services are lazy, passive or on-demand)
Connected to server
[2019-01-24 03:08:02,544] Artifact webservice: Artifact is being deployed, please wait...
15:08:02,721 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "webservice" (runtime-name: "webservice.war")
15:08:03,236 INFO  [org.jboss.web] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 7) JBAS018210: Register web context: /webservice
15:08:03,400 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (management-handler-thread - 2) JBAS015859: Deployed "webservice" (runtime-name : "webservice.war")
[2019-01-24 03:08:03,428] Artifact webservice: Artifact is deployed successfully
[2019-01-24 03:08:03,428] Artifact webservice: Deploy took 884 milliseconds

What I would expect is when I open a browser and write http://localhost:8080/book to see H2G2 as answer. I have also tried http://localhost:8080/webservice/book since it mentions that the web context has been registered to /webservice but again without success. I get a 404 Not Found error. What I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

In your App.java you need to define the ApplicationPath. Something like below.

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;

@ApplicationPath("/restRoot")
public class App extends Application {

    @Override
    public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
        HashSet<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
        classes.add(BookRestService.class);

        return classes;
    }
}

After this you REST url will become

http://localhost:8080/webservice/restRoot/book