Chapter 23. Embedded Container

RESTeasy JAX-RS comes with an embeddable server that you can run within your classpath. It packages TJWS embeddable servlet container with JAX-RS.

From the distribution, move the jars in resteasy-jaxrs.war/WEB-INF/lib into your classpath. You must both programmatically register your JAX-RS beans using the embedded server's Registry. Here's an example:


@Path("/")
public class MyResource {

   @GET
   public String get() { return "hello world"; }
 

   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception 
   {
      TJWSEmbeddedJaxrsServer tjws = new TJWSEmbeddedJaxrsServer();
      tjws.setPort(8081);
      tjws.getRegistry().addPerRequestResource(MyResource.class);
      tjws.start();
   }
}

The server can either host non-encrypted or SSL based resources, but not both. See the Javadoc for TJWSEmbeddedJaxrsServer as well as its superclass TJWSServletServer. The TJWS website is also a good place for information.

If you want to use Spring, see the SpringBeanProcessor. Here's a pseudo-code example


   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception 
   {
      final TJWSEmbeddedJaxrsServer tjws = new TJWSEmbeddedJaxrsServer();
      tjws.setPort(8081);

      org.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.SpringBeanProcessor processor = new SpringBeanProcessor(tjws.getRegistry(), tjws.getFactory();
      ConfigurableBeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(...);
      factory.addBeanPostProcessor(processor);

      tjws.start();
   }