JAX-RS Application on the root context - how can it be done?

I would like to have my JAX-RX Application start at the root context so my URLs will be

http://example.com/restfullPath

and not

http://example.com/rest/restfullPath

I switched my Application's annotation from this

@ApplicationPath("/rest/*")

to this

@ApplicationPath("/*")

But then it seems that it takes over serving files such as /index.html

Is there a way to run a JAX-RS on the root application context but still have static pages served?

Seems this was asked before on the JBOSS forum, but the solution is not really practical