How can I integrate Jersey with TomEE?

Question

I attempt to deploy a very simple RESTful Web Service using Jersey 1.18 within Tomee 1.5.2 WebProfile. My project is fully inspired from the tomee-jersey-eclipselink

example that I further simplified by removing the persistence part: the Web Service simply retuns "Hello, World!"

@Path("/hello")
@RequestScoped
public class HelloService {

    public HelloService() {
    }

    @GET
    public String test() {
        return "Hello, World!";
    }
}

My dependencies in my POM:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        <version>6.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
        <version>1.18</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-servlet</artifactId>
        <version>1.18</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

I deploy my Web Service with the agnostic Application model:

import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;

public class JerseyApplication extends Application {

    @Override
    public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
        final Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
        classes.add(HelloService.class);
        return classes;
    }
}

And here is my web.xml:

<web-app>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
      <param-value>org.superbiz.service.JerseyApplication</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

I also added the following property in $TOMEE/conf/system.properties:

com.sun.jersey.server.impl.cdi.lookupExtensionInBeanManager=true

Everything works fine with Tomcat 7 (In this case, I replace the javax:javaee-api dependency by javax.enterprise:cdi-api:1.1 in the POM), but when I try with Tomee, I just get a 404 HTTP status, with no exception and no additional logging message.

The result is the same whenever I deploy the application from my Eclipse IDE or with Maven in command line.

Note:

• I do not want to use Tomee JAX-RS with Apache CXF, and I cannot upgrade to Tomee 1.6.
• I already tried all possible ways from this post, that did not help.

Any idea ?

Answer 1

There was an issue resolved in TomEE 1.7.0 that fixed this problem. As the issue notes, you also need to add the following line to your catalina.properties:

openejb.classloader.forced-load=javax.ws.rs

This worked for me with Jersey 2.