Overloading a REST Service throws exception

[Maya sekar]

Hello Everybody,

I am trying to overload two methods in my service,

say,

@GET
@Path("/hello")
@Produces("text/plain")
public String sayHello()
{
return "Hello";
} 
@GET
@Path("/hello")
@Produces("text/plain")
public String sayHello(@QueryParam("name) String name)
{
return "hello" + name;
}

Can't figure out whats wrong... Does the error occur because I am trying to overload the service or is it because of something else? Any help is much appreciated.

Many thanks.
Have a nice day

but when i try this i get an error

SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable
com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.Errors$ErrorMessagesException
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.Errors.processErrorMessages(Errors.java:170)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.Errors.postProcess(Errors.java:136)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.inject.Errors.processWithErrors(Errors.java:199)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.initiate(WebApplicationImpl.java:771)
	at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.initiate(WebApplicationImpl.java:766)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.initiate(ServletContainer.java:488)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer$InternalWebComponent.initiate(ServletContainer.java:318)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.load(WebComponent.java:609)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.init(WebComponent.java:210)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:373)
	at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.init(ServletContainer.java:556)
	at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1173)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:809)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:129)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)