Another note on this: If you use your own custom javax.ws.rs.Application, the provider can be pulled from the web app.
best,
-Rob
On Feb 1, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Robert Koberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> java 1.6.0_17
> tomcat 6.0.24
> jersey-1.1.5
>
> * placed my jersey jars in $tomcat/lib.
> * created custom javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider and resource classes in my web app ($app/WEB-INF/lib).
> * using 'com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages' and give it the packages of Jackson's jaxrs (that live in $tomcat/lib) and my provider and resources (that live in $app/WEB-INF/lib).
>
> Jersey does its scan at server start and finds my resource classes and the Jackson providers, but not my web app's provider. If I place my provider in the $tomcat/lib it is found by the scan.
>
> Is this a fact of life or a bug? Does this happen on other servlet containers? I was going to move the provider to the server lib dir anyway, so it is not really a problem for me, but it is unexpected.
>
> best,
> -Rob