In this example we are going to use @DELETE Annotation. For this example we are going to have the following files:
- WEB.xml
- DeleteExample.java
WEB.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>com.tushar.jersey.Project</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>jersey-serlvet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer </servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>com.tushar.jersey.Project</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>jersey-serlvet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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DeleteExample.java
package com.tushar.jersey.Project;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes; import javax.ws.rs.DELETE; import javax.ws.rs.Path; import javax.ws.rs.Produces; import javax.ws.rs.core.Response; @Path("/deleteAnnotation")public class DeleteExample { @DELETE @Consumes("application/json") @Produces("application/json") @Path("{actor}") public Response update(Movie movie) { String output = "This is an example of DELETE Annotation" + movie; return Response.status(200).entity(output).build(); } } |
Run the Server:
Start the server and paste the following URL in the browser:
http:// localhost:8080/com.tushar.jersey.Project/rest/deleteAnnotation/actor
Output:

