Overwrite HTTP method with JAX-RS

Question

Today\'s browsers (or HTML < 5) only support HTTP GET and POST, but to communicate RESTful one need PUT and DELETE too. If the workaround should not be to use Ajax, something

Answer 1

Not strictly a JAX-RS solution but spring 3.0 comes with a HiddenHttpMethodFilter that implements exactly the trick that rails does, defaults to the same _method parameter.

Note that you don't need to be using all of spring to use this filter, you can just configure it in your web.xml and ignore the rest of spring.