Resteasy not working in servlet containers using 1) @ApplicationPath 2) Custom URL Pattern in HttpServletDispatcher using "resteasy.resources"

[vjsingh]

Hi,

I am not sure whether this is the correct destination for the thread, but I did not find any other place.

I am not being able to make Resteasy work with @ApplicationPath in servlet containers like Tomcat 7 or Jetty 8. My code is as follows:

{code}
@ApplicationPath("/rest")
public class MyApplication extends Application {
          @Override
          public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
                    final Set<Class<?>> s = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
                    s.add(ViewController2.class);
                    return s;
          }
}
{code}

{code}@Path("/")
public class ViewController {
          @GET
          @Path("/test")
          public String test() {
                    return "Yes!";
          }
}
{code}

Replacing Resteasy libs with jersey immediately solved the problem. Adding the following lines also did not resolve the problem:

{code:xml}
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name>
<param-value>testResteasy.MyApplication</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
{code}

Then I looked up the given examples and was able to make it work using:

{code:xml}
<context-param>
<param-name>resteasy.resources</param-name>
<param-value>testResteasy.controller.ViewController</param-value>
</context-param>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
{code}

Nevertheless, I don't want all of my URI to be fecthed via Resteasy. So I changed the url-pattern to "/rest/*" and it again stopped working.

I would really like to know the following 2 things:

1. Why does @ApplicationPath not work whereas it works seamlessly using Jersey.
2. When using "resteasy.resources" why does any other url-pattern other than " /* " not work?

Regrads.

Vikram.