Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

Testing the REST GET request in the browser

In this section, we will test the web service we created in the previous section in the browser. To test the web service, browse to http://localhost:8080/CourseManagementREST/services/course/get/10.

You should see the following XML displayed in the browser:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> 
<course id="10"> 
  <course_name>Course-10</course_name> 
  <credits>5</credits> 
  <teacher id="2"> 
    <teacher_name>Teacher1</teacher_name> 
  </teacher> 
</course>

Instead of generating an XML response, let's say we want to create a JSON response, because it would be much easier to consume a JSON response from JavaScript in a web page than an XML response. To create a JSON response, we need to change ...