How to test a Jersey REST web service?

Question

I have written a Restful Web service and have to test it using JUnit4. I have already written a Client using Jersey Client. But want to know if I can test my service only wi

Answer 1

Take a look at Alchemy rest client generator. This can generate a proxy implementation for your JAX-RS webservice class using jersey client behind the scene. Effectively you will call you webservice methods as simple java methods from your unit tests. Handles http authentication as well.

There is no code generation involved if you need to simply run tests so it is convenient.

The demo here setup up grizzly and uses the generator above to run junit tests.

Disclaimer: I am the author of this library.