Setting up a development environment for JAX-RS applications

The application server provides command-line tools to develop web services clients and implementations that are based on the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) specification. You must set up your development environment before you start developing web services.

Before you begin

Before you can set up a web services development environment within WebSphere® Application Server, you must install WebSphere Application Server. For detailed information about installing the application server, read about installing your application server environment.

To develop JAX-RS applications, the JAX-RS libraries must be added to the class path definition. See the information for your assembly tools to understand how to include libraries on the class path for the JAX-RS application.

About this task

Set up a web services development environment by completing the following actions.

Procedure

  1. Set up the environment.

    [Windows] Run the setupCmdLine.bat command from the /profile_root/<application_server>/bin directory.

    [Linux][AIX][HP-UX][Solaris] Operating systems such as AIX® or Linux source the script to the parent shell to inherit the exported variables by running the following command from the . /profile_root/<application_server>/bin directory:
    . ./setupCmdLine.sh  (Notice the space between
    the periods.)

    [AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows] You can set WAS_USER_SCRIPT to profile_root\<application_server>\bin\setupCmdLine.bat, which has the same effect as running the setupCmdLine command.

    [IBM i] Run the setupCmdLine script on the Qshell command line from the . /profile_root/bin directory.

    [z/OS] Run the setupCmdLine script from the . /profile_root/<application_server>/bin directory.

  2. [AIX Solaris HP-UX Linux Windows][z/OS] Configure the path. You can add the WebSphere and Java bin directories to your path by typing:
    [Windows][z/OS]
    set PATH=%WAS_PATH%;%PATH%
    [AIX][HP-UX][Solaris][Linux]
    export PATH=$WAS_PATH:$PATH

Results

You have set up an environment so that you can develop RESTful web services.

What to do next

Develop your JAX-RS application and configure the web.xml file for the JAX-RS servlet.
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