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1. Work assignment =================================

The goal of the test is to show how you would normally take on a java-based programming task. The assessment will be based on the following criterieas:

• Clean design
• Reuse (3:rd part products)
• Maintainability
• Testability/Testing
• Coding style
• Requirement analysis

You decide how "deep" you go in your implementation to satisfy the criterias.

Write a Java client and server for the REST version of the "blog ping" protocol.

Client:

• Command-Line or web interface
• Calls a blogping server using the REST-api
• Handles errors

Server:

• Accepts blogping messages using REST
• Serves a changes.xml over HTTP
• Handles concurrent connections

The blogping and changes.xml format is documented here: http://www.weblogs.com/api.html (note that only the REST interface is necessary for this assignment).

You will need Maven and a recent JDK. You can verify that your development evnironment is sound by running:

mvn jetty:run

open then your browser of choice and point it to http://localhost:8080/hello. You should see a greeting message.

The provided base code includes both integration and unit tests. You can run integration test form the command line, just type:

mvn verify

The servlet (BlogpingServlet) and the integration test (BlogpingIT) are just provided as an example, use them as a starting point or throw them away and start from scratch. Good luck.