Okay, I figured it out for anyone who is interested. It was actually fairly trivial once I found an example.
@GET
@Path("{eventid}")
@Produces("text/html")
public void getEvent(@Context HttpServletResponse response,
@Context HttpServletRequest request,
@PathParam("eventid") Long eventid) throws ServletException,
IOException {
EventDao eventdao = DaoFactory.getEventDao();
Event event = eventdao.find(eventid);
request.setAttribute("event", event);
request.getRequestDispatcher("eventView.jsp").forward(request, response);
}