url-pattern

I have a question related to REST url design. I found some relevant posts here: Different RESTful representations of the same resource and here: RESTful url to GET resource by different fields but the responses are not quite clear on what the best practices are and why. Here's an example. I have REST urls for representing "users" resource. I can GET a user with an id or with an email address but the URL representation remains the same for both. Going through a lot of blogs and books I see that people have been doing this in many different ways. For example read this practice in a book and

What's the difference between two asterisks instead of one asterisk when we refer to paths? Earlier I was debugging my Spring 3 project. I was trying to add a .swf using <spring:url var="flashy" value="/resources/images/flash.swf"/> With my web.xml's ResourceServlet looking like <servlet-name>Resource Servlet </servlet-name> <url-pattern>/resources/*</url-pattern> But unfortunately I was getting this error: WARN org.springframework.js.resources.ResourceServlet - An attempt to access a protected resource at /images/flash.swf was disallowed. I found it really strange since all my images in the

I have manually configured web.xml for my application. Now, I'm facing issues while running my application. I'm trying to access my servlet from my jsp page. But, it is throwing error as page not found . The servlets are placed under below folder location <application folder>/WEB-INF/classes/<package> So, what should be the entries for servlets in url-pattern and servlet-mapping . So that, servlet can be accessible through URL. url-pattern is used in web.xml to map your servlet to specific URL. Please see below xml code, similar code you may find in your web.xml configuration file. <servlet>