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

I think @peeskillet has given you the needed prerequisites, i.e you need to run your web-service in an embedded web server. You could also look into dropwizard or spring-boot support for doing this conveniently.

As for actually verifying the response I would keep it simple and go with JUnit & http-matchers (see https://github.com/valid4j/http-matchers)