A DynamicFeature implementation for binding filters to resources with Jersey 2.0, in this case flagging certain resources as not supporting Internet Explorer 6.

Jersey Resource Filters via Custom Annotations

Files for demonstrating custom binding of Jersey resource filters using annotations

IE6NotSupported.java

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface IE6NotSupported {}

IE6NotSupportedFilter.java

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestFilter;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;

public class IE6NotSupportedFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {

  @Override
  public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException {
    if (isIE6Browser(requestContext.getHeaderString("User-Agent"))) {
      requestContext.abortWith(Response.status(Status.PRECONDITION_FAILED).entity(getFailurePage()).build());
    }
  }

  private boolean isIE6Browser(String headerString) {
    ...
  }

  private Object getFailurePage() {
    ...
  }

}

MyApplication.java

import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;

import com.google.common.collect.Sets;

public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig {
  
  public MyApplication() {
    super(Sets.<Class<?>>newHashSet(
    
      // resources, other features and providers would also go here
      ResourceFilterBindingFeature.class
      
    ));
  }

}

ResourceFilterBindingFeature.java

import javax.ws.rs.container.DynamicFeature;
import javax.ws.rs.container.ResourceInfo;
import javax.ws.rs.core.FeatureContext;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;

@Provider
public class ResourceFilterBindingFeature implements DynamicFeature {

  @Override
  public void configure(ResourceInfo resourceInfo, FeatureContext context) {
    if (resourceInfo.getResourceMethod().isAnnotationPresent(IE6NotSupported.class)) {
      context.register(IE6NotSupportedFilter.class);
    }
    
  }
}