Java rest framework with programmable dispatcher?

Question

I'm searching a java rest framework or JAX-RS implementation that allows me to configure the dispatcher at runtime through an API. In JAX-RS it is only possible to do the configuration with @Path and @HttpMethod annotations or by effectively building your own dispatcher in a sub-resource.

I'm searching for:

dispatcher.addResource("/my/{path}", Resource.class) or
dispatcher.addResource("/2nd/path", resourceHandlerFactory)

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is nothing in JAX-RS for dynamic resource specification as you've found. Apache Wink has another alternative to Restlet called DynamicResource http://incubator.apache.org/wink/1.1/html/5.1%20Registration%20and%20Configuration.html. I'd be quite interested in why you need dynamic resources as I had similar requirement.

Answer 2

Try Restlet. It provides runtime dispatch functionality through its Router class. See http://wiki.restlet.org/docs_2.1/13-restlet/27-restlet/326-restlet.html for an example.