REST Webservice URI setup

Thank heavens I found the blog topic http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2010/02/jax-rs-with-jersey-introduction.html.

So, here's the setup.

http://hostname/<context root of web application>/<url pattern of the servlet mapping>/<path defined in java class>

http://

hypertext transfer protocol

hostname

the hostname where the web server is lurking

context root of web application

the context root is defined by the proprietary xml file sun-web.xml

url pattern of the servlet mapping

the url pattern defined in the web.xml for a particular servlet, to indicate for which urls the servlet needs to be called

path defined in java class

the path is defined in the java class that is going to function as the REST webservice. It's defined by means of the @Path annotation on the Class itself.