RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Configuring web.xml for the servlet 2.x container

If the JAX-RS application does not have an Application subclass in the project, then you need to specify a fully qualified servlet class that is used by the JAX-RS runtime and a servlet-mapping entry in web.xml. You can also specify the package where the runtime should scan though to find the JAX-RS components, such as class resources, filters, interceptors, and so on.

The following example shows the configuration entries that you may need to make in web.xml to deploy a JAX-RS application without the Application subclass on the servlet 2.0 based container:

<web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>jaxrs.servlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer </servlet-class> ...