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Set up a development environment for JAX-RS applications
The application server provides command-line tools to develop web services clients and implementations that are based on the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) specification. We must set up your development environment before you start developing web services.
Before you can set up a web services development environment within WAS, install WAS. For detailed information about installing the application server, read about installing your application server environment.
To develop JAX-RS applications, the JAX-RS libraries must be added to the class path definition. See the information for your assembly tools to understand how to include libraries on the class path for the JAX-RS application.
Set up a web services development environment by completing the following actions.
Procedure
- Set up the environment.
(Windows) Run the setupCmdLine.bat command from the /PROFILE_ROOT/ <application_server>/bin directory.
(AIX) 
(Solaris) Operating systems such as AIX or Linux source the script to the parent shell to inherit the exported variables by running the following command from the . /PROFILE_ROOT/
<application_server>/bin directory:
. ./setupCmdLine.sh (Notice the space between the periods.)
We can set WAS_USER_SCRIPT to PROFILE_ROOT\ <application_server>\bin\setupCmdLine.bat, which has the same effect as running the setupCmdLine command.
- Configure the path. You can add the WebSphere and Java bin directories
to your path by typing:
(Windows)
set PATH=%WAS_PATH%;%PATH%
(AIX)
(Solaris)
export PATH=$WAS_PATH:$PATH
Results
You have set up an environment so that you can develop RESTful web services.
What to do next
Develop your JAX-RS application and configure the web.xml file for the JAX-RS servlet.Assembly tools
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