To begin with, REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It is a way of developing web services based on state-less, cacheable, client-server protocol, which is HTTP in most cases.
REST web services use HTTP requests to post, get, delete data from network.
mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId = com.tuts.abhinav -DartifactId = rest-service -DarchetypeArtifactId = maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode = false
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.servicemix.specs</groupId> <artifactId>org.apache.servicemix.specs.jsr311-api-1.1.1</artifactId> <version>1.9.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.servicemix</groupId> <artifactId>servicemix-http</artifactId> <version>2013.01</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>log4j</groupId> <artifactId>log4j</artifactId> <version>1.2.16</version> </dependency>
<build> <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId> <artifalctId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.4</version> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <instructions> <Bundle-SymbolicName>rest-example-database-post-method </Bundle-SymbolicName> <Import-Package>* </Import-Package> </instructions> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build>
<pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>fusesource.m2</id> <name>FuseSource Community Release Repository</name> <url>http://repo.fusesource.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </pluginRepository> <pluginRepositories>
<repositories> <repository> <id>fusesource.m2</id> <name>FuseSource Community Release Repository</name> <url>http://repo.fusesource.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </repository> <repository> <id>fusesource.ea</id> <name>FuseSource Community Early Access Release Repository</name> <url>http://repo.fusesource.com/nexus/content/groups/ea</url> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> </repository> </repositories>
Create class UserService.java under com/tuts/
package com.tuts; import javax.ws.rs.GET; import javax.ws.rs.Path; import javax.ws.rs.Produces; import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType; @Path("/UserService_1") public class UserService { @GET @Path("/get_data") @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON) public String getUser() { String reponse = "This is standard response from REST"; return reponse; } }
Create blueprint.xml under/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprint blueprint.xml
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?> <blueprint xmlns = "http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0" xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:jaxrs = "http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/jaxrs" xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/jaxrs http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/blueprint/jaxrs.xsd"> <jaxrs:server id = "service" address = "/users"> <jaxrs:serviceBeans> <ref component-id = "userService" /> </jaxrs:serviceBeans> </jaxrs:server> <bean id = "userService" class = "com.tuts.UserService" /> </blueprint>
install -s mvn:com.tuts.abhinav/rest-service/1.0-SNAPSHOT
Open URL http://localhost:8181/cxf
Open URL http://localhost:8181/cxf/users12/UserService_1/get_data