Running JAXRS services in the Cloud in 5 minutes… or less!

Here is a really simple post about how to push REST services in the Cloud. Nothing really technical nor advanced, just some notes and sample using amazing tools CXF + Heroku…

Last time I was speaking about putting some SOAP Web services in the Cloud with Heroku, this time it is the same with REST services… The approach is exactly the same but it uses the JAXRS implementation provided by Apache CXF.

The REST service illustrates how to annotate the Java interface to returns JSON-based responses like:

Once implemented and configured (it uses Spring with the famous WEB-INF/beans.xml file), pushing it to Heroku is as simple as last time, nothing new here. Heroku needs a Procfile to start, and the Maven-based project is configured to generate what the Procfile needs: A shell file which launches a Jetty instance running Apache CXF and all the REST stuff.

The code is located at https://github.com/chamerling/heroku-cxf-jaxrs. You can run it locally to test before pushing to heroku:

• mvn install
• sh target/bin/webapp