What Jersey version do I need to download for JDK 1.9?

Question

I am using jdk 1.9. I am trying to bring up a simple ReST service. Created the project using the maven archetype: jersey-quickstart-webapp. Then I went ahead and mo

Answer 1

The problem that current Jersey has a shaded asm 5 dependency, which doesn't work with Java 9 bytecode. Looks like Jersey 1.x is not adopted to Java 9 and it's unclear if this support is coming at all. As a temporary solution, I made a branch where I deleted shaded asm, migrated packages in code to use a regular asm dependency and put asm 6.0 in maven dependencies.

You can build only jersey-server and jersey-servlet modules from this branch because only these two depend on asm and use these two custom artifacts in your project.

My projects work fine with such a replacement, but I can't guarantee that it's 100% working solution, I wasn't able to build the whole distribution without fails and can't invest time for a full adoption and check right now. On the same time, the main Jersey parts built without issues.

So, your final pom would look like:

    com.sun.jersey
    jersey-server
    ${custom-jersey-with-asm6.version}



     com.sun.jersey
     jersey-servlet
     ${custom-jersey-with-asm6.version}



     org.ow2.asm
     asm
     6.0