Hello Thierry, thanks a lot for responding so quickly and for your help - I greatly appreciate it!
Apparently, you were at least partly right about the libraries - changing them to the newer version 1.1 (Test) has changed the behavior - but it is still not the way it should be... I have prepared a very small WAR file to illustrate the problem - if you are willing to download it, it should help to clarify the problem (< 500 kB, Source code and libraries included): http://www.leonidat.de/test.war Having updated the libraries at first seemed to do the trick - the endings were accessible. However, once you send a request such as "http://myserver/maypp/test/foo/bar.html/" (with a "/" at the end), the old problem is back again. You never get a suffix after one such request with a trailing "/" until you restart the server or redeploy the application. To illustrate that, I have prepared three examples in the WAR, just deploy it in your tomcat, navigate to "http://localhost:8080/test/" and try the three links I have provided. Examples 1 and 2 will work fine. After clicking the third link, the other two will have changed their behavior... Any idea how to avoid that strange behavior? Obviously, I would not like to rely on the hope that nobody will ever send a "wrong" request to the service... Thanks a great deal for your support! Cheers, Lutz