Overwrite HTTP method with JAX-RS
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 like a hidden form field is required to overwrite the actual HTTP method. Rails uses the following trick: <input name="_method" type="hidden" value="put" /> Is there a possibility to do something similar with JAX-RS? 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