Testing a web service without a client

…There are several different levels of testing that can be done on a RESTful web…service and you'll likely use each of them in turn as you develop your product.…The first and most basic method is to test the Java code itself.…This is probably the simplest way to test since…it doesn't require servers or complicated message handling at all.…In this video, we will create a simple error checking class…for the function that we worked on in the previous video,…and then run it to ensure that the basic code for the function is correct.…If you didn't watch the previous video, you can get the…code form there by looking in the exercise files for this video.…

Let's start by creating a new class within the package.…We'll call it RestTest. This will…be a Runnable Java class, so the first thing we need is a main method.…The format for the main method is public static…void main. And then an array of strings called args.…This is just the standard format for a main method that will allow Eclipse…to understand what it is and run it.…