JAX-RS : Deployment  

 

 

 

 

This page provides the tips on how to deploy CXF JAX-RS applications packaged as WAR archives or OSGI bundles into Java EE application servers and OSGI containers.

Spring Boot

Please see CXF SpringBoot documenation. 

Please see JAX-RS Spring Boot and JAX-RS Spring Boot Scan demos.

Servlet Containers

Tomcat

1. System "org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH"
and "org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.ALLOW_BACKSLASH" properties may have to be set to "true" to support URIs containing encoded forward or backward slashes.
2. When using mod_jk - ensure that the JkOptions setting has +ForwardURICompatUnparsed set.
3. Windows: upgrade isapi_redirect.dll if you see URI containing encoded spaces being decoded by Tomcat.

Application Servers

Glassfish

Verified with Glassfish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.1

1. Make sure a cxf-rt-transport-http-jetty dependency is excluded during the war build

2. If a custom JAX-RS Application is included then
use a CXFNonSpringJaxrsServlet to reference the Application implementation class and either
2.1 Disable the Jersey scanning the custom web applications. Setting the following system property may help:
"-Dcom.sun.enterprise.overrideablejavaxpackages=javax.ws.rs,javax.ws.rs.core,javax.ws.rs.ext"

2.2 Remove jersey-gf-server.jar from $GLASSFISH_HOME/glassfish/modules

JBoss

Verified with JBoss AS 7.1.0.CR1b

1. If a custom JAX-RS Application is included then
use a CXFNonSpringJaxrsServlet to reference the Application implementation class and either

1.1 Disable the RestEasy scanning the custom web applications (TODO: specify how this actually can be done)
1.2 Modify $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml by commenting out a "org.jboss.as.jaxrs" extension and a "urn:jboss:domain:jaxrs:1.0" sybsystem.

2. JBoss does not support URI path slashes by default: http://securitytracker.com/id/1018110

WebLogic

Verified with WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.1)

Specifying a WebLogic specific JSP servlet

If you configure CXFServlet to redirect to custom JSP pages then you need to add the following declaration to web.xml:

<servlet>
 <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
 <servlet-class>weblogic.servlet.JSPServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

CXF RuntimeDelegate

Add a "prefer-application-packages" block in weblogic.xml, including the package "javax.ws.rs.*", for CXF RuntimeDelegate be visible after the application has been redeployed

Selecting Woodstox as the default parser

WebLogic requires the following update to the proprietary deployment descriptor weblogic.xml:

  <container-descriptor>
   <!-- SNIP -->
   <prefer-web-inf-classes>true</prefer-web-inf-classes>
  </container-descriptor>

This instructs WebLogic's classloaders to look FIRST in the JARS from the application's WEB-INF/lib directory for Service Provider Implementations (in this case, to find META-INF/services/javax.xml.stream.XMLInputFactory in the Woodstox JAR) rather than to the system classloader.
Please see this thread for more information.

Downgrading Servlet version

It was reported that downgrading a web-app descriptor version in web.xml can help disable the native (Jersey) scanning:

  <!-- From: -->
  <web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
  </web-app>
  <!-- To: -->
  <web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
  </web-app>

Removing myfaces-shared-impl jar

It was reported if myfaces-shared-impl-4.1.0.jar is shipped in a web application lib folder then removing it helps, with the following descriptor being effective:

<weblogic-web-app>
  <context-root>/emessaging</context-root>
  <container-descriptor>
    <prefer-web-inf-classes>false</prefer-web-inf-classes>
	<prefer-application-packages>
		<package-name>javax.faces.*</package-name>
	</prefer-application-packages>	
  </container-descriptor>

</weblogic-web-app>

 

 

 

How to use CXF JAX-RS 2.0 if WebLogic ships JAX-RS 1.1

Please see the following email message.

Geronimo

CXF RuntimeDelegate

It has been reported CXF RuntimeDelegate may not be visible after the application has been redeployed in Geronimo. Most likely Geronimo needs to be configured similar to the way WebLogic has to to resolve the same issue (please see the relevant section above), TODO: update the section once we know the actual details.

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