Connecting to Web Service with apache HttpClient

The Appache HTTP Components library seems to work fine for communicating with a regular web site, but is unable to connect to a web service. I am building come components to run inside a Java Desktop application that will communicate with a Web Service-REST using the Jersey framework. The web service is running and I can communicate it with my web browser and with the Test-Web-Service function in netbeans. The client code works fine if I try to read from a regular web page or even the default page for the Glassfish web server running on my machine. Why is it that when I try to reach the web service with my client program (code below) do I get a 404 Not Found error from the web server? ``` import java.io.*; import org.apache.http.*; import org.apache.http.client.*; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.*; //HttpHead, HttpPut, HttpGet, etc... import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils; public class ApacheClientDemo { public static void demo() throws IOException { String uri = "http://localhost:8080/Proctorest/resources/helloWorld"; HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(uri); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget); System.out.println(response.getStatusLine().toString()); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); System.out.println(); System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity)); } public static void main(String[] args) { try { demo(); } catch(IOException ioe) { System.out.println(ioe); } } } ``` When going to a regular web site on-line or a non-web service site hosted locally, the output is ``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK ``` Followed by the content of the web page. The code above gives me ``` HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found ``` Edit: Below is the code for the web service. The web service code was generated from a Netbeans sample project. ``` /* * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS HEADER. * * Copyright 1997-2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. * * Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. * Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. * * The contents of this file are subject to the terms of either the GNU * General Public License Version 2 only ("GPL") or the Common * Development and Distribution License("CDDL") (collectively, the * "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the * License. You can obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.netbeans.org/cddl-gplv2.html * or nbbuild/licenses/CDDL-GPL-2-CP. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the * License. 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