Tomcat Installation on Eclipse

1. Make sure your Eclipse has the Eclipse JST Server Adapters (Apache Tomcat, JOnAS, J2EE)
2. Follow the Guide

• If you encounter a problem in Step 3 of Guide, please see possible solution

Creating First Web Service

1. Install Web Tools Platform on your Eclipse (If you cannot create Dynamic Web Project)
2. Create Dynamic Web Project

• Don't forget to change build path to src/main/java

3. Follow instructions in guide

• Tutorial for Web Application and explanation
• One may need to change pom file because it uses old version of dependencies. Here is an updated version
• Here is web.xml file. Note that the info under <servlet-mapping> tag changing the url pattern of rest service.
• If you come up with a SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet [Jersey RESTful Application]java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer try to do following solution for eclipse in second answer