Creating a REST root resource class

…Now that we've gone over the syntax for a RESTful message,…in this video we're going to look at the other end.…The REST root resource class.…This is the Java method on your…server that accepts and handles a RESTful message.…Back in Eclipse, we're going to create and define the REST class now.…If you haven't gone through chapter one, where we created the…package, you can download the exercise files from this video and work…from them.…Right click on the package you created and choose to create a new class.…

You might notice the options for a RESTful…web service from pattern in the right click menu.…This option generates a file with a set of methods to…deal with each of the HTTP commands and the generic structure.…In the future, this can save some time when creating a…REST class, but for the purposes of this video, we'll just create…the default class. So give it a name, and click Finish.…The first thing we need to do in this new file is to specify the path.…This will be the final part of the URI that is used to reference…