What's the right way to parse a URI in JAX-RS

[Jim Talbut]

Hi,

I have a method that receives a collection of objects, each of which has 
a unique URI as a member, and I need to parse these URI into their 
component parts.
Clearly these URIs are not the URI of the method that is currently 
running, which seems to mean that UriInfo isn't any help.
Are there any JAX-RS ways to parse a URI based upon a specific method 
(like an anti-UriBuilder), or am I on my own?

Thanks

Jim