Service layer- Testing Rest services in localhost

Hi,

Can some one let me know the process of testing the rest services using localhost:8000/rest/test using virgo/tomcat independent of UI layer.

Tried following approaches:

I tried adding the service to the virgo server and started virgo server in eclipse. However localhost:8000 didn't work.

Downloaded virgo-nano and tried startup.bat from command line still localhost wasn't up.