JAX-RS @PathParam How to pass a String with slashes, hyphens & equals too

Question

I am new to JAX-RS and I am trying to use Jersey to build a simple RESTful Webservice.

I have 2 questions. Please clarify these:

1. I am trying to have

Answer 1

I got this to work using @QueryParam() rather than @PathParam.

@Path("/inchi")
public class InChIto3D {
    @GET
    //@Path("{inchiname}")
    @Produces("application/xml")
    public String get3DCoordinates(@QueryParam("inchiname") String inchiName) {
          String ne="";
          try{
              URL eutilsurl = new URL(
                      "http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?"
                      + "db=pccompound&term=%22"+inchiName+"%22[inchi]");
              BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                                new InputStreamReader(eutilsurl.openStream()));
             String inputline;
             while ((inputline=in.readLine())!=null)
                 ne=ne+inputline;
          }catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
          }catch (IOException e2){
          }
          return ne;
    }
}

Thus the URL structure would be like this http://myrestservice.com/rest/inchi?inchiname=InChIhere

With @PathParam I read in the API that it will not accept slashes. I am wondering if I can use any Regular Expression in @Path just to ignore all slashes in the string that would be entered in quotes" ".