Spring MVC 4.0 RESTFul Web Services - spring

Question

I am trying to build a hello world restful web service with the help of spring mvc 4.0 framework. I created a dynamic web application added web.xml , rest-servlet.xml and MyController.java file in a package mythird.attempt.sample.controller.
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app>
<display-name>My sample rest</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>Index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>rest</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>rest</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
rest-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="mythird.attempt.sample.controller" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
</beans>
MyController.java
package mythird.attempt.sample.controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/myfirst")
public class MyController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String getGreeting(#PathVariable String name) {
String result="Hello "+name;
return result;
}
#RequestMapping(value="/qq", method = RequestMethod.GET)
#ResponseBody
public String getGreeting1() {
String result="Hello world";
return result;
}
}
I tried deploying this on both apache tomcat and glassfish.
When i hit the url "localhost:8080//.../myfirst/asdf in the browser
Glassfish gave warnings like
"No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/myfirst/asdf] in DispatcherServlet with name.."
And gave a dialog with details and ok , on clicking details
it gives
System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestParse)
- Exception reading manifest from localhost:8080/TestApache1/myfirst/kk: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.
- Source: System.Deployment
- Stack trace:
at System.Deployment.Application.ManifestReader.FromDocument(String localPath, ManifestType manifestType, Uri sourceUri)
Please help me out here!!. thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

I think the url should be "localhost:8080/{warname}/rest/myfirst/asdf
The web.xml says that the servlet will kick in for all url's that have a "rest" path in it, i do not think you are using that in your sample attempts

Answer 2

Got the solution..
Things started working fine when i used the normal browser instead of embedded browser in my eclipse.
Thanks!