This is an example application of my blog post called Unit Testing of Spring MVC Controllers: REST API http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/spring-framework/unit-testing-of-spring-mvc-controllers-rest-api/ RUNNING THE APPLICATION: - Download and install Maven 3 (http://maven.apache.org/download.html#Installation). If you have already installed Maven 3, you can skip this step. - Go the root directory of project (The one which contains the pom.xml file) - Run command mvn clean jetty:run - Start your browser and go to the location: http://localhost:8080 RUNNING TESTS: - You can run unit tests by using this command: mvn test -P dev - You can run integration tests by using this command: mvn verify -P integration-test