Hosting Static Content and JAX-RS Services Under the Same Root Context

Question

We have multiple Java web apps packaged as WARs all packaged in an EAR. Our RESTful services are built using JAX-RS and in version specific WARs.

We\'d like to add

Answer 1

So I found a solution (tested) that works. As stated in the Resteasy Documentation - RESTEasy as a servlet Filter:

The downside of running Resteasy as a Servlet is that you cannot have static resources like .html and .jpeg files in the same path as your JAX-RS services. Resteasy allows you to run as a Filter instead. If a JAX-RS resource is not found under the URL requested, Resteasy will delegate back to the base servlet container to resolve URLs.

web.xml example

<web-app>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>Resteasy</filter-name>
        <filter-class>
            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.FilterDispatcher
        </filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
            <param-value>com.restfully.shop.services.ShoppingApplication</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>Resteasy</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
</web-app>

Answer 2

I found another solution (thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/3582215/589525 ). This works for RestEasy on JBoss 6. Simply add the default servlet to the mapping

<!--existing mapping: -->
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>