PUT and POST getting 405 Method Not Allowed Error for Restful Web Services

Question

I am trying to set up a simple Restful Web-Service which returns either JSON or XML according to the Accept header. I am using Spring, Maven and WebLogic Server. I took the

Answer 1

In my case the form (which I cannot modify) was always sending POST.
While in my Web Service I tried to implement GET method (due to lack of documentation I expected that both are allowed).

Thus, it was failing as "Not allowed", since there was no method with POST type on my end.

Changing @GET to @POST above my WS method fixed the issue.