Generating RESTful Java client code

NetBeans provides a wizard that can automatically generate client Java code that invokes our RESTful web service methods via the corresponding HTTP requests.

To generate this client code in a Java application project, we simply need to go to File | New File, select the Web Services category, and select RESTful Java Client as the file type.

Generating RESTful Java client code

In the next step in the wizard, we need to enter a class name and a package name for our JAX-RS client.

Generating RESTful Java client code

Note

Jersey is the JAX-RS implementation included with GlassFish. Since we ...

Get Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.