Form Based authentication in REST Web serivces - eclipse

Question

I have created the REST web services using dynamic web project in eclipse and running in tomcat 7.
I am able to do basic authentication for the web services. Now I am trying to implement form based authentication.Now, any web service call from the browser shows 404 error instead of showing the login form.
May be , I guess the issue is path of the LoginForm.html. I have created the LoginForm.html directly under webcontent.
My web.xml code is
<?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" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" 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>CustomerConnect</display-name>
<security-role>
<role-name>manager</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>management pages</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>manager</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/LoginForm.html</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/LoginError.html</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<!-- <session-config> -->
<!-- <session-timeout> -->
<!-- 1 -->
<!-- </session-timeout> -->
<!-- </session-config> -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.feature.Redirect</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.JSPTemplatesBasePath</param-name>
<param-value>/views/</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.WebPageContentRegex</param-name>
<param-value>/(images|css|jsp)/.*</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
<param-value>com.bvbi.customerconnect.middletier</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<context-param>
<description>Location to store uploaded file</description>
<param-name>file-upload</param-name>
<param-value>
/home/bvbi/Desktop/apache-tomcat-7.0.26/webapps/CredoImages/
</param-value>
</context-param>
</web-app>

Answer 1

Your path configuration is correct. Remove * from your <url-pattern> inside the <servlet-mapping>.
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Service</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Does it make any difference?