RESTful Service: Problem with @PathParam starting with slashes

[Christian Hartmann]

Dear all,

I've go the following Path-Annotation for my Delete-Method using REST and CXF 
2.4.2

@DELETE
@Path("/{userid:.+}/univids/{univid:.+}")
public Response deleteUnivId(@PathParam("userid") final String userId,
                                @PathParam("univid") final String univid,
                                @QueryParam("affiliateId") final String 
affiliateId)
[...]

It works properly for many cases.

Now I like to send this delete-call

/v1/univids/Franki/univids///TOP49

Unfortunately, I got only 'TOP49' within my method for the PathParam univId.

The tomcat-access-log looks fine:

[...]

[07/Sep/2011:15:01:16 +0200] "DELETE /v1/univids/Franki/univids///TOP49 
HTTP/1.1" 404 - "null" "GraphicalHttpClient 1.0.5 (Macintosh; Mac OS X 10.6.8; 
de_DE)"

Anybody out there who might help? 

Any help will be appreciated.

Regards,

Christian