# Rulz: JAX-RS 2.0 Client Provider for System Tests Released

JUnit Rule for convenient initialization of JAX-RS 2.0 Client in system tests released (github.com/AdamBien/rulz):



public class JAXRSClientProviderTest {
	
    @Rule
    public JAXRSClientProvider provider = JAXRSClientProvider.buildWithURI("http://www.java.com");
	
    @Test
    public void pingJava() {
        Client client = provider.client();
        assertNotNull(client);
        WebTarget target = provider.target();
        assertNotNull(target);
        Response response = target.request(MediaType.TEXT_HTML).get();
        assertThat(response.getStatus(), is(200));
    }

}



The required test dependency can be easily declared with Maven:


<dependency>
    <groupId>com.airhacks.rulz</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxrsclient</artifactId>
    <version>[RECENT_VERSION]</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>


See also the EntityManager provider rule.


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