all,

under tomcat 6 on windows these urls work, with or with the trailing slash. -
http://localhost:8080/magic/recommendation
http://localhost:8080/magic/recommendation/

http://localhost:8080/recommendation?sectionId=3
http://localhost:8080/recommendation/?sectionId=3

but under tomcat 7 on linux i can only get these to work -
http://localhost:8080/magic/recommendation
http://localhost:8080/recommendation?sectionId=3

the trailing slash doesn't work. and i need it to for some dojo rest object stores.

my controller looks like
Code:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/recommendation")
public class RecommendationController extends BaseRESTController {

    @Resource RecommendationService _recommendationService;


    @RequestMapping(value="/{id}", method= RequestMethod.GET, headers=ACCEPT_JSON)
    public @ResponseBody RecommendationDTO get(@PathVariable("id") Long id) {
        return new RecommendationDTO(_recommendationService.getRecommendation(id));
    }


    @RequestMapping(value={"","/"}, method= RequestMethod.GET, headers=ACCEPT_JSON)
    public @ResponseBody List<RecommendationDTO> getAll() {
        List<RecommendationDTO> recommendationDTOs = new ArrayList<RecommendationDTO>();
        for(Recommendation recommendation : _recommendationService.getAllRecommendations()) recommendationDTOs.add(new RecommendationDTO(recommendation));
        return recommendationDTOs;
    }


    @RequestMapping(value={"","/"}, method= RequestMethod.GET, headers=ACCEPT_JSON, params="sectionId")
    public @ResponseBody List<RecommendationDTO> getBySectionId(@RequestParam("sectionId") Long sectionId) {
        List<RecommendationDTO> recommendationDTOs = new ArrayList<RecommendationDTO>();
        for(Recommendation recommendation :  _recommendationService.getByRecommendationSectionId(sectionId)) recommendationDTOs.add(new RecommendationDTO(recommendation));
        return recommendationDTOs;
    }
i've try this with and without value={"","/"} in the method mapping.

here's some web.xml
Code:
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
        <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>com.magic.config</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>magic</servlet-name>
    </filter-mapping>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>oemInViewFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>
            org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter
        </filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>oemInViewFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
        <servlet-name>magic</servlet-name>
    </filter-mapping>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>


    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>magic</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value></param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>magic</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>staticcontent</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
if i change the servlet mapping to /* then i can use /* in the controller mapping and things work but then spring security breaks.

thanks