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• From Eclipse main menu, select File->New->Other
  
  
• In the New dialog, select Web->Dynamic Web Project and click Next
  
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• Type jaxws-rest-converterclient as the Project Name and click Next
  
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• On the Project Facets page, the default selections are enough.
  
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• Make sure that the check box Generate Deployment Descriptor is selected and click Next
  
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• On the Geronimo Deployment Page modify the Group Id to org.apache.geronimo.samples.jaxws.rest and the Artifact Id to jaxws-rest-converterclient.
  
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• Click Finish

Developing the Web based Client

• Right Click the jaxws-converterclient, and Select New->JSP
  
  
• Name the jsp as index.jsp and click Finish
  
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• Add the following code to the index.jsp

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• Right click again and add another jsp named post.jsp
  
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• Add the following code to post.jsp

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• Right click again and add a Servlet named ConverterHandler
  
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• Add the following code to ConverterHandler.java

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• Right click on the Apache Geronimo Server Runtime present in the servers view and select Add and Remove Projects
  
  
• Add jaxws-rest-converterclient to configured projects list and then click Finish
  
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• Wait for some time till the server status changes to Synchronized

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• Right click the index.jsp present under WebContent directory of our project and select Run As->Run On Server
  
  
• In the popup, check the check box Always use this server when running the project and then click Finish
  
  
• Now Eclipse will try to open the jsp in a web browser which shows you a form to enter amount in Dollars.
  
  
• Enter any amount and press submit, the jsp should display the result that is returned by the web service.
  
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<amount dollars="23" />

This completes the development of a simple RESTful client that consumes a RESTful Web Service that is already deployed on the server.