Running a gradle jersey 2.0 web app without a web.xml in eclipse - eclipse

Question

I have a gradle project that I import in eclipse. The project is a web app and I manage to build and deploy it to the tomcat but the jersey REST services are not being loaded and hence I get 404 when trying to reach these services.
I'm using tomcat7 which has support for servlet-api 3.0.
please note that I'm not using a web.xml. I have a class that extends Application and should load the right classes and set the root for the REST services.
Here's my class:
import java.util.Set;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
#javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath("api")
public class JerseyApplicationConfig extends Application
{
#Override
public Set<Class<?>> getClasses()
{
Set<Class<?>> resources = new java.util.HashSet<Class<?>>();
addRestResourceClasses(resources);
return resources;
}
private void addRestResourceClasses(Set<Class<?>> resources)
{
resources.add(com.cisco.gemini.LoggingRESTService.class);
}
}
The problem is that this class does not get created by jersey and therefore the REST services are not set up.
Thanks,
Gal
Update:
I managed to solve the problem so I'm posting here the solution for everyone's benefit.
Here's my gradle file that got things working. I can now build and run the services on tomcat7 from Eclipse and the jersey servlets load properly.
Note: I also wanted to be able to run the service from command line (for testing purposes) for this reason I applied the jettyEclipse plugin. The jetty plugin that comes with gradle does not support servlet-api 3.0. this isn't working for me yet (because of some conflict on slf4j which I'm using) but it might work for others.
Thanks,
Gal
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'jetty'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath (group: 'com.sahlbach.gradle', name: 'gradle-jetty-eclipse-plugin', version: '1.9.+')
}
}
apply plugin: 'jettyEclipse'
dependencies {
compile 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.0.1'
compile 'com.sun.jersey:jersey-server:1.18.1'
compile 'com.sun.jersey:jersey-core:1.18.1'
compile 'com.sun.jersey:jersey-json:1.18.1'
compile 'com.sun.jersey:jersey-servlet:1.18.1'
compile 'javax.ws.rs:jsr311-api:1.1.1'
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
compile 'org.codehaus.jettison:jettison:1.3.5'
}
eclipse {
wtp {
component {
contextPath = 'MyService'
deployName = 'MyService'
facet {
facet name: 'jst.web', version: '3.0'
facet name: 'java', version: '1.7' }
}
}
}

Answer 1

If you want to make it working from command-line you can try to use gretty plugin - https://github.com/akhikhl/gretty - it supports newer versions of Jetty including Servlet 3.0 compatible versions. Or the other way is to make your application 2.5 compatible: add web.xml and define various components here. I'd prefer the first solution.