Building and Running the Storage-Service Application from the Command Line

1. Make sure that Maven is installed and configured, as described in Running the Jersey Examples.

2. Open a terminal prompt and navigate to jersey.home/samples/storage-service.

3. To run the sample, enter mvn clean compile exec:java and press Enter.

   This will build, package, and deploy the web storage service using Grizzly, an HTTP web server.

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   Tip –

   To run the application on GlassFish, copy the classes from the example into sources of the web application. Then, create a web.xml file that uses the Jersey servlet. The Java classes are not dependent on a particular container.

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4. To view the Web Application Description Language file (the WADL), open a web browser and navigate to:

   http://localhost:9998/storage/application.wadl

   The WADL description in also shown in this document at Example: The Storage-Service WADL

5. Leave the terminal window open, and open a new terminal window to continue with exploring this sample.