403 error when calling webservice

I am trying to call a web-service from my servlet,the web-service interacts with the database and in this case I am trying to insert into the database,however I get a strange 403 status code in the response although I have not designated it so.

This is me calling the web-service:

    public static void makePutRequest(String objtype,String objkey,String json)
{
    String uri=BASE_URI+objtype+"/"+objkey;
    System.out.println("Making a put request to the url "+uri);
    HttpURLConnection conn=null;
    URL url=null;
    BufferedWriter writer=null;
    try {
        url=new URL(uri);
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    try {
        conn=(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        conn.addRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
        conn.setRequestMethod("PUT");
        conn.setDoInput(true);
        conn.setDoOutput(true);
        System.out.println(json);
        writer=new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream()));
        writer.write(json);
        writer.flush();
        int rc=conn.getResponseCode();
        System.out.println("The response code is "+rc);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    finally
    {
        if(writer!=null)
        {
            try {
                writer.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            if(conn!=null)
                conn.disconnect();
        }
    }
}
This is the response in the console:

 Making a put request to the url  http://localhost:8180/GoogleMapsErpProject/rest/GoogleMapsErp/EQUI/242423
 The response code is 403
I have found that the web-service actually never gets called which might mean that my url is wrong,so I tried calling it with this:

   http://localhost:8180/rest/GoogleMapsErp/EQUI/242423
GoogleMapErpProject is the name of my project.This is my web.xml file:

   <web-app xmlns:javaee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
  <display-name></display-name>
  <servlet>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Services</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
<init-param>
  <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
  <param-value>com.hastha.maperp.webservice</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
 <servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Jersey REST Services</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
I have tried to make a cURL request to the web-service:

 curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d
 '{"gisuniqkey":"2434fd22dv3","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":
  [-17.895114303749143,150.908203125]}}'
  http://localhost:8180/GoogleMapsErpProject/rest/GoogleMapsErp/EQUI/123123
  HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
  Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
  Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
  Content-Length: 961
  Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:28:07 GMT

  curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type:application/son" -d
  '{"gisuniqkey":"2434fd22dv3","geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":
  [-17.895114303749143,150.908203125]}}'
  http://localhost:8180/rest/GoogleMapsErp/EQUI/123123
  HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
  Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
  Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
  Content-Length: 961
  Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:54 GMT