This is a “how to” mini tutorial for running JAX-RS Jersey on Google App Engine Java environment.

Sandbox Environment:
Operating System:        Windows Vista
Integrated Development Environment: Eclipse Galileo

Setting up:

Start a Google App Engine project from Eclipse. Download Jersey 1.1.5-ea-SNAPSHOT from here . Explode the zip into a local folder. Grab the following jars and put them into GAEJ project’s /war/WEB-INF/lib folder.

asm-3.1.jar
jackson-core-asl-1.1.1.jar
jersey-client-1.1.5-ea-SNAPSHOT.jar
jersey-core-1.1.5-ea-SNAPSHOT.jar
jersey-json-1.1.5-ea-SNAPSHOT.jar
jersey-server-1.1.5-ea-SNAPSHOT.jar
jettison-1.1.jar
jsr311-api-1.1.1.jar

HelloWorldResource.java

Following user-guide.pdf create a resource class as follow. You can download the Jersey user guide from here.

package com.dclonline.jerseytest;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;

//The Java class will be hosted at the URI path "/helloworld"
@Path("/helloworld")
public class HelloWorldResources {

	// The Java method will process HTTP GET requests
	@GET
	// The Java method will produce content identified by the MIME Media
	// type "text/plain"
	@Produces("text/plain")
	public String getClichedMessage() {
		// Return some cliched textual content
		return "Hello World";
	}
}

web.xml

Edit web.xml as follow.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
	<servlet>
        <servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
            <param-value>com.dclonline.jerseytest</param-value>
        </init-param>
         <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/resources/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
</web-app>

Test the service

After deployment to Google App Engine you can test the Hello World service using the following url.

http://<your google app engine app id>.appspot.com/resources/helloworld

A live link can be found here
http://meghbaksho22.appspot.com/resources/helloworld