theautonomy/rest-book-library

A single HTML page web application backed by restful web service using Jersey Rest API

Introduction

This project implements restful web services using JAX-RS Jersey implementation. Front end is a single HTML page which uses JQuery AJAX API to call the back end restful services.

• How to run the application

  • Clone the project from github
  • Run with Maven and Tomcat 7
    • From a command prompt, enter the command: mvn tomcat7:run
  • Run with Maven and Jetty 8
    • From a command prompt, enter the command: mvn jetty:run
  • Visit the following URL from a browser:
    • http://localhost:8080/rest-book-library/books.html

• See it in action at: http://mybooks.weili.cloudbees.net/books.html

• See an introduction to restful web service presentation at: http://www.slideshare.net/weili_at_slideshare/introduction-to-res-tful-web-services