Starting the web service

We have different options for starting the backend (web service).

Tomcat Setup

I normally use Tomcat as container for java web applications. For development purposes I have all tomcat versions installed under

$HOME/development/servers/tomcat/apache-tomcat-X

I'll refer to this folder as $DEVTOMCATHOME.

From an IDE

This backend is optimized for IntelliJ, but should also work with Eclipse. YMMV.

In IntelliJ: Just start the application (after setting up Tomcat) in Run or Debug mode and the web service will be available for clients.

From local Tomcat

Create WAR file and deploy to local Tomcat

We can either

• double click the Maven package option from IntelliJ (in the Maven View) or
• run mvn package from the command line.

Both will generate the file $DEVTOMCATHOME/ngdemo.war.

Start Tomcat

Mac/Linux: ./$DEVTOMCATHOME/bin/startup.sh

Windows: ./$DEVTOMCATHOME/bin/startup.bat

Test WebService

I'll use curl to test the HTTP request to our web service:

curl -i -X GET -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:8080/ngdemo/web/users

This should output something similar to:

` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: application/json Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:41:27 GMT

[{"id":1,"firstName":"Foo1","lastName":"Bar1"},{"id":2,"firstName":"Foo2","lastName":"Bar2"},{"id":3,"firstName":"Foo3","lastName":"Bar3"},{"id":4,"firstName":"Foo4","lastName":"Bar4"},{"id":5,"firstName":"Foo5","lastName":"Bar5"},{"id":6,"firstName":"Foo6","lastName":"Bar6"},{"id":7,"firstName":"Foo7","lastName":"Bar7"},{"id":8,"firstName":"Foo8","lastName":"Bar8"},{"id":9,"firstName":"Foo9","lastName":"Bar9"},{"id":10,"firstName":"Foo10","lastName":"Bar10"}] `