Working with a REST sample in Eclipse

Procedure

From a command-line windows, navigate to the jax-rs folder and type mvn clean install eclipse:eclipse. This will create an Eclipse project out of this sample that we can import into Eclipse.
From Eclipse we can now import the project. From the Menu row, select File : Import..., and from the resulting Import popup, choose Existing Projects into Workspace (see illustration below). Select Next.
Select the four Eclipse projects comprising this example: jaxrs-intro-client, jaxrs-intro-common, jaxrs-intro-service-bundle, and jaxrs-intro-service-war. You'll see them listed in the left-side Eclipse Navigator and Project Explorer views. At this stage any of the files can be viewed and modified. Be sure to run mvn clean install from the jaxrs-intro folder within a command prompt window after any changes made.
Prior to running the client, we'll need to activate the REST service, which we can do in at least two ways:
- To run the example within Talend ESB, we'll need to create the Karaf features file that contains the definition for this service. First, from a command prompt navigate to the features folder (sibling to jaxrs-intro) and run mvn clean install. Next, from the command prompt enter feature:repo-add mvn:com.talend.sf.examples/osgi/1.0/xml/features to install the features file followed by feature:install tsf-example-jaxrs-intro to install the JAXRS-Intro service.
- To run the example within CXF's internal (Jetty-based) servlet container, navigate to the war folder and run mvn jetty:run.
To run the client, from a command prompt in the jaxrs-intro/client folder, run mvn exec:java.

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