Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

Creating a Java client for the REST GET web service

Let's now create a Java client application that calls the previous web service. Create a simple Maven project and call it CourseManagementRESTClient:

Figure 9.3: Create a JAX-RS client project

Open pom.xml and add a dependency for the Jersey client module:

  <dependencies> 
    <dependency> 
      <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId> 
      <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId> 
      <version>2.18</version> 
    </dependency> 
  </dependencies>

Create a Java class called CourseManagementRESTClient in the packt.jee.eclipse.rest.ws.client package:

Figure 9.4: Create a REST client main class

You could invoke a RESTful ...