JAX-RS Application on the root context - how can it be done?

Question

I would like to have my JAX-RX Application start at the root context so my URLs will be

http://example.com/restfullPath

and not

http://example.com

Answer 1

I have found another solution that involves internal Jersey classes, I assume it's probably just not yet part of the JAX-RS spec. (based on: http://www.lucubratory.eu/simple-jerseyrest-and-jsp-based-web-application/)

web.xml

  jersey-rest-jsp-frame-1

  
    jersey
    
      com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer
    
    
      
        com.sun.jersey.config.property.JSPTemplatesBasePath
      
      /WEB-INF/jsp
    
    
      
        com.sun.jersey.config.property.WebPageContentRegex
      
      
        (/(image|js|css)/?.*)|(/.*\.jsp)|(/WEB-INF/.*\.jsp)|
        (/WEB-INF/.*\.jspf)|(/.*\.html)|(/favicon\.ico)|
        (/robots\.txt)
      
    
  
  
    jersey
    /*
  

WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>



Hello ${it.foo}!

IndexModel.java

package example;

import com.sun.jersey.api.view.Viewable;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.HashMap;

@Path("/")
@Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
public class IndexModel {

    @GET
    public Response root() {
      return Response.seeOther(URI.create("/index")).build();
    }

    @GET
    @Path("index")
    public Viewable index(@Context HttpServletRequest request) {
      HashMap model = new HashMap();
      model.put("foo","World");
      return new Viewable("/index.jsp", model);
    }
}

This seems to work, but I wonder if it is / will be part of JAX-RS spec / implementation.