Question

The Appache HTTP Components library seems to work fine for communicating with a regular web site, but is unable to connect to a web service.

I am building come components to run inside a Java Desktop application that will communicate with a Web Service-REST using the Jersey framework. The web service is running and I can communicate it with my web browser and with the Test-Web-Service function in netbeans.

The client code works fine if I try to read from a regular web page or even the default page for the Glassfish web server running on my machine.
Why is it that when I try to reach the web service with my client program (code below) do I get a 404 Not Found error from the web server?

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.http.*;
import org.apache.http.client.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.*;  //HttpHead, HttpPut, HttpGet, etc...
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class ApacheClientDemo {

  public static void demo() throws IOException {           
     String uri = "http://localhost:8080/Proctorest/resources/helloWorld";
     HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
     HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(uri);
     HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
     System.out.println(response.getStatusLine().toString());
     HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
     System.out.println();
     System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));       
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        demo();
    }
    catch(IOException ioe) {
        System.out.println(ioe);
    }
  }
}

When going to a regular web site on-line or a non-web service site hosted locally, the output is

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Followed by the content of the web page.

The code above gives me

  HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

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Edit: Below is the code for the web service.
The web service code was generated from a Netbeans sample project.

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package helloworld;

import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;

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

/**
* REST Web Service
*
* @author mkuchtiak
*/

@Stateless
@Path("/helloWorld")
public class HelloWorldResource {

    @EJB
    private NameStorageBean nameStorage;
    /**
    * Retrieves representation of an instance of helloworld.HelloWorldResource
    * @return an instance of java.lang.String
    */
    @GET
    @Produces("text/html")
    public String getXml() {
        return "<html><body><h1>Hello "+nameStorage.getName()+"!</h1></body></html>";
    }

    /**
    * PUT method for updating an instance of HelloWorldResource
    * @param content representation for the resource
    * @return an HTTP response with content of the updated or created resource.
    */
    @PUT
    @Consumes("text/plain")
    public void putXml(String content) {
        nameStorage.setName(content);
    }
}

/////////// NameStorageBean .java

import javax.ejb.Singleton;

/** Singleton session bean used to store the name parameter for "/helloWorld" resource
*
* @author mkuchtiak
*/
@Singleton
public class NameStorageBean {

    // name field
    private String name = "World";

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

Answer 1

I can not see how you deploy the service.

try change (camel case is unusual for a service)

String uri = "http://localhost:8080/Proctorest/resources/helloWorld";

to lowercase “helloworld”

String uri = "http://localhost:8080/Proctorest/resources/helloworld";

or try

String uri = "http://localhost:8080/helloworld";

HOW TO GET ROUTE

U:…\HelloWorld1\HelloWorld1\web\WEB-INF\sun-web.xml

<sun-web-app error-url="">
  <context-root>/HW</context-root>
  <class-loader delegate="true"/>
  <jsp-config>
    <property name="keepgenerated" value="true">
      <description>Keep a copy of the generated servlet class' java code.</description>
    </property>
  </jsp-config>
</sun-web-app>

a) //localhost:8080/HW from <context-root>/HW</context-root>

U:…\HelloWorld1\HelloWorld1\web\WEB-INF\web.xml

<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ServletAdaptor</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ServletAdaptor</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/hw/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

b) //localhost:8080/HW/hw from <url-pattern>/hw/*</url-pattern>

U:….\HelloWorld1\HelloWorld1\src\java\helloworld\HelloWorldResource.java

.....
/**
 * REST Web Service
 *
 * @author mkuchtiak
 */

@Stateless
@Path("/helloworld")
public class HelloWorldResource {
....

c) //localhost:8080/HW/hw/helloworld from @Path("/helloworld")

put a)b)c) parts from your 3 files together.

Notice: the url Netbeans shows is wrong, only /HW is correct

...
    Incrementally deploying HelloWorld1
    Completed incremental distribution of HelloWorld1
    run-deploy:
    Browsing: http://localhost:8080/HW/resources/helloWorld
...

---

....
public static void demo() throws IOException {           
     String uri = "http://localhost:8080/HW/hw/helloworld";
     HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
     HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(uri);
     HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
     System.out.println(response.getStatusLine().toString());
     HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
     System.out.println();
     System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));       
  }
....

OUTPUT

debug:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>