RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Selectively applying filters and interceptors on REST resources by using @NameBinding

The @javax.ws.rs.NameBinding annotation is used for creating the name-binding annotation for filters and interceptors. Later, developers can selectively apply the name-binding annotation on the desired REST resource classes or methods.

For example, consider the following name-binding annotation, RequestLogger:

@NameBinding 
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) 
@Target({ElementType.METHOD,ElementType.TYPE}) 
public @interface RequestLogger { 
} 

You can use the preceding name-binding annotation, RequestLogger, to decorate the desired filters and interceptors, as shown here:

//imports are removed for brevity @RequestLogger public class RequestLoggerFilter implements ...