Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8

Getting started with Java EE 8 microservices

In this section, we're going to take a look at the following things:

• How to develop, build, and run your first Java-EE-8-powered microservice
• Required Java EE 8 dependencies for basic web-service development
• Basic components of any JAX-RS-based web service
• Deployment of a thin WAR artifact using Payara Server 5

Let's get started and dive into the code. I've prepared my IDE and a raw skeleton Maven project. What you see here is a very basic POM file:

There's one thing missing though; first, we need to define the required dependency for the Java EE 8 API. Let's do that:

        <dependency> <groupId>javax</groupId> ...