I have been playing around with Blossom Module .

I love the fact that you can create page templates using annotations, and provide page specific services within the controller you are working on. However the challenge i am facing is that my web services that I want to create need to be available for any page. (they have to be externally available and accessible via URL)

So i have tried the standard way of creating a controller:

 
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/xyzPage")
public class XyzPageController {

       @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)        
       public String render() {
             return "pages/xyzPage.jsp";
      }
}

but for some reason this controller never gets invoked using URL like below :

http://localhost:8080/myProject-webapp/xyzPage

It only works when i add Blossom annotation such as @Template

Just to give you some background, i am using configurations in the sample blossom project

Im sensing that BlossomServletConfiguration has got something todo with this, but i am not familiar enough with the setup to apply my own changes ....

So to summarise, what i am trying todo is make publicly available web services that would return or consume JSON files.
What is the best practise for this?
I have seen a number of conversations on the web but nothing really answers this
Any help provided will be highly appreciated !