REST tools support for development and testing [closed]

Answer 1

I found a nice Firefox plugin called Poster that allows you to act as a REST client similar to rest-client and the others. I wish it would render the response to a firefox tab (rather than a custom output window) so any returned XML could be colorized by Firefox's awesome syntax highlighting. But overall seems to work OK.

Update: Oh, even better. I found another firefox plugin callsed RestClient https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780. This seems to do the syntax highlighting.

Answer 2

SOA Cleaner, is a test tool that tests both soap and rest (also WCF, but it seems you don't need that feature). It's very intuative, and usable. Written in .NET. A free version is also available. can be downloaded from http://xyrow.com. Good luck!

Answer 3

There are some tools that do these type of things but few support RESTful APIs as yet.

"Rose" does: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/design-implement-restful-web-services/index.html

but you will need deep pockets...

Not aware of any others at the moment. Would like to know though (of something afordable)

Answer 4

The easy and best client tool to test your REST API calls is a Firefox add-on RESTClient.

Install the add on and test the API calls.

Answer 5

In terms of Java, there is the JAX-RS API, which is the Java Api for Xml using Restful Services or something like that. Basically, JAX-RS provides a more standard way to build RESTful services in Java.

There is also Restlet, which allows easily development of Restful services and is based on the JAX-RS specification.

Also, checkout SOAP-UI which has recently added nice support for REST.

http://www.restlet.org/

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=311 - JAX-RS

http://www.eviware.com/content/view/134/1/ - SOAP-UI

http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui - SOAP-UI

Answer 6

I'd like to underline that the Restlet project supports two APIs to develop RESTful applications:

• Core Restlet API : class-based, client and server-side, multi-protocol, very large features scope
• JAX-RS API : annotation-based, only server-side, smaller features scope

Restlet can deploy in Servlet containers, standalone (pure JVM), in GWT for the client-side, in Spring, in Mule ESB or in OSGi containers. Here is the complete list of features.

Best regards,

Jerome Louvel