WAS v8.5 > Develop applications > Develop web services - RESTful services > Develop JAX-RS web applications
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. Set up your development environment before you start developing web services.
Before we can set up a web services development environment within WebSphere Application Server, install WAS. For detailed information about installing the application server, read about installing the application server environment.
To develop JAX-RS applications, the JAX-RS libraries must be added to the class path definition. See the information for the 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.
- Set up the environment.
Run the setupCmdLine.bat command from the /profile_root/<application_server>/bin directory.
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. We can add the WebSphere and Java bin directories
to your path by typing:
- set PATH=%WAS_PATH%;%PATH%
- export PATH=$WAS_PATH:$PATH
Results
You have set up an environment so that we can develop RESTful web services.
Develop your JAX-RS application and configure web.xml for the JAX-RS servlet.
Related concepts:
Development and assembly tools
Reference:
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