How to use Jersey 2 with Spring IoC container

Question

What is the best way to enable injection of spring beans into Jersey 2? Jersey seems to not support this natively.

What is needed to wire the 2 frameworks together?

Answer 1

As of June 2013, Jersey 2.0 has no official Spring support. There are two options:

1. Use third party code from here https://github.com/marko-asplund/jersey/tree/master/ext/jersey-spring
2. Wait until HK2 spring bridge becomes stable and documented https://java.net/jira/browse/HK2-40

See also:

http://jersey.576304.n2.nabble.com/Spring-framework-support-for-Jersey-2-td7580673.html

EDIT: Jersey 2.3 has spring support now, see the answer by Fabio below