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Creating Rest Service Using Mule ESB 3.3

Posted on the 05 April 2013 by Abhishek Somani @somaniabhi
Creating Rest Services with Mule is very easy as mule provides built in support for Jersey. Create mule flow in mule studio like this . Creating Rest Service Using Mule ESB 3.3
create a Rest class like this and link it to rest component :
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;


@Path("restClass")
public class RestClass {

 public Response getExample(@QueryParam("param1")String param1)
 {
  return Response.status(Status.OK).entity("hello " + param1).build();
 }
 
}
This is how the Mule flow xml will look like :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<mule xmlns:jersey="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/jersey" xmlns:http="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http" xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation" xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" version="CE-3.3.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http/current/mule-http.xsd 
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/jersey http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/jersey/current/mule-jersey.xsd 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-current.xsd 
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd ">
    <flow name="restTestFlow1" doc:name="restTestFlow1">
        <http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost" port="8081" doc:name="HTTP"/>
        <jersey:resources doc:name="REST">
            <component class="RestClass"/>
         </jersey:resources>
    </flow>
</mule>
If you want to use spring created bean in the rest Component , then first declare the component as spring bean , and then refer it in the jersey-resource using spring-object tag , like this :
<flow name="restTestFlow1" doc:name="restTestFlow1">

     <http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" host="localhost" port="8081" doc:name="HTTP"/>
       <spring:bean id="testBean" class="TestSpringBean"></spring:bean>
    <spring:bean id="restClass">
      <spring:property name="bean" ref="testBean"></spring:property>
    </spring:bean>

        <jersey:resources doc:name="REST">
            <component doc:name="rest component">
             <spring-object bean="restClass">
            </component>
        </jersey:resources>
</flow>
You can use multiple rest classes also , like this :
<jersey:resources doc:name="REST">
   <component>
    <spring-object bean="restService" />
   </component>
   <component>
    <spring-object bean="restService1" />
   </component>
  </jersey:resources>
Mule Studio throws error "Required attribute class is not defined in component" , you can ignore this error, as it runs perfectly fine. Post your suggestions !!

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