In this tutorial we will see how to redirect url using restful webservice in java. Sometime we need to redirect to other url or server .For example , when we do verification of email id then we send mail to user with a link. User click on link we need to verify user and sent to front end server or other url as per our application requirement . Before learning jersey redirect to another resource you should have idea about restful webservice in java . I recommended to you read first jersey rest api tutorial first. We will discuss how to jersey send redirect request , you should first create restful webservice example . Now In this example we will create get api whichforward request to another url.
How to redirect to any url in jersey
@GET
@Path("/user")
public Response userVerification(@Context Response response){
java.net.URI location = new java.net.URI("http://www.ariseter.com");
return Response.temporaryRedirect(location).build();
}This is example we will redirect to www.ariseter.com url . In this example we call rest api with GET method but our client follow redirect to other url after call compilation of task. you can read more jersey example for beginners . This example is helpful when we need to redirect our follow to other server or url after completing task .