Working with Tomcat

Owned by Selvyn Wright
Last updated: Apr 30, 2018
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Important

Use Tomcat 9.x or higher, previous versions do not work with the current versions of Jersey

Use Jersey 2.27 files from org.glassfish.jersey.  There are three dependencies that are required -

<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
<version>2.27</version>
<!-- use the following artifactId if you don't need servlet 2.x compatibility -->
<!-- artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId -->
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
<version>2.27</version>
</dependency>
<!-- uncomment this to get JSON support -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-media-json-binding</artifactId>
<version>2.27</version>
</dependency>

The context.xml in a war file is ignored.  In order to created virtual paths, you need to create an xml file (can be given any name) under $CATAINA_BASE/conf/<engine>/<host>/ (so my machine this is - c:/java/apache-tomcat-9.0.7/conf/Catalina/localhost).  I have two file currently dbwstier.xml, and dbank.xml

dbwstier.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context docBase="C:\work\software\netbeans\DBankDBTier_ws_exp\target\DBankDBTier_ws_exp" path="/dbwstier"/>

dbank.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context docBase="C:\work\software\eclipse_jee\DBankDBTier_ws_exp\target\DBankDBTier-ws-1.0" path="/dbank"/>