There are many frameworks out there to facilitate testing RESTful webservices but there is one framework I’d like to acquaint you with my favourite framework named REST-assured.

REST-assured offers a bunch of nice features like a DSL-like syntax, XPath-Validation, Specification Reuse, easy file uploads and those features we’re going to explore in the following article.

With a few lines of code and Jersey I have written a RESTful web service that allows us to explore the features of the REST-assured framework and to run tests against this service.

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Often in a developer’s life there is a REST service to deal with and nowadays one wants a fast and clean solution to create a client for such a service.

The following tutorial shows a quick approach using JAX-RS with its reference implementation, Jersey in combination with JAX-B for annotation driven marshalling between XML or JSON structures and our Java-Beans.

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You’re using the popular Confluence wiki? You’re using its RPC/SOAP API and missing a function you really need? Just extend the  capabilities of the Confluence RPC API by programming a custom web service component – it is really easy and also well documented.

In this tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to quickly implement a SOAP service, securing it and putting its methods in a transactional context.

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It is possible to create SOAP webservices with only a few lines of code using the JAX-WS annotations. In a productivity environment you might prefer using contract-first instead of code-first to create your webservice but for now we’re going to use the fast method and that means code-first and annotations olé!

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Having written the article “How to build a Confluence SOAP client in 5 minutes” some readers asked me for some more information and help using the  JAX-WS plugin that I mentioned in the article instead of the Axis plugin – so here we go (more…)