connection.getConnetion() returns 404 code on WebSphere7 - web-services

Question

I have implemented a REST service using Spring Integration.
When I try to access the service manually using main function, It is working fine.
I also tested the service using REST Client in Google Chrome and that worked. But the service is coming back with responseCode 404 on WebSphere server. So I am facing the issue when I deploy the code on higher environment.
URL u = new URL("http://localhost:8080/MyApplication/testRestService");
URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) uc;
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept","*/*");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
OutputStream out = connection.getOutputStream();
Writer wout = new OutputStreamWriter(out);
//helper function that gets a string from a dom Document
String input = jsonInput;
wout.write(input.getBytes());
wout.flush();
wout.close();
// Response
int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
Is is dependent on server, so its coming back with response code 404 ? Do we need any server side configuration ?
Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Why do you use different ContentType for URLConnection and for httpClient?
Show, please, your REST service config: 404 means Not found. Therefore you use (or don't) some options in request which makes it non-matching for the server's RequestMapping.

Answer 2

I tried with Apache HTTP Client and the code is working on WebSphere now. Still I am not able to find the reason why java.net.HttpURLConnection was not working on WebSphere.
Please find my updated code below :
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = null;
HttpPost postRequest = null;
StringEntity inputEntity = null;
HttpResponse response = null;
try{
//RETREIVE WEB SERVICE URL FROM DB
String callbackURL = "http://localhost:8080/MyApplication/testRestService";
httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
postRequest = new HttpPost(callbackURL);
String inputData = request.toString();
inputEntity = new StringEntity(inputData);
inputEntity.setContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
postRequest.setEntity(inputEntity);
response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);
if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 201 && response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "+ response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
}
//System.out.println("HTTP Response Code :"+response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
LOGGER.debug("HTTP Response Code :"+response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}catch(IOException ex){
ex.printStackTrace();
throw ex;
}finally{
httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
httpClient = null;
postRequest = null;
inputEntity = null;
response = null;
}