Deploying a Jersey webapp on Jboss AS 7

it has already been mentioned in this post : https://community.jboss.org/message/744530#744530 , you can just ask the resteasy module to not scan for other JAX RS implementations in your webapp; just add this to your web.xml :

<context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan.providers</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan.resources</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
</context-param>

worked fine for me


Besides removing the entire jaxrs subsystem in standalone.xml as mentioned in the other posts excluding the RESTEasy modules in jboss-deployment-structure.xml may also work.

<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.0">
  <deployment>
    <exclusions>
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-atom-provider" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-cdi" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jaxrs" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jaxb-provider" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jackson-provider" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jsapi" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-multipart-provider" />
      <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.async-http-servlet-30" />
    </exclusions>
  </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

Also check out

  • JBoss Deployment Structure File
  • Implicit module dependencies for deployments

I believe the correct approach is to use app server agnostic JAX-RS application deployment. No need to mess with any JBoss configuration. All you need is, extend javax.ws.rs.core.Application in your JAX-RS web application. You can find an example here. Then, you need to put this in your web.xml.

<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>jersey.MyApplication</param-value>
  </init-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan.providers</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>resteasy.scan.resources</param-name>
    <param-value>false</param-value>
  </context-param>

  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

Package scanning mechanism does not work correctly on JBoss 7.x. I have tested this approach successfully in JBoss 7.0.2.Final and JBoss 7.1.1.Final.


 <jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2">
  <deployment>
    <exclude-subsystems>
    <subsystem name="jaxrs" />
    </exclude-subsystems>
   </deployment>
 </jboss-deployment-structure>

Will do the trick, works great with 7.3AS.ctomc just missed a tiny slash in the end to terminate the section.:-)