JAX-WS WebServiceContext remains null (Annotation Injection Fails)

Question

I\'ve tried deploying my app to both Tomcat 6 with Metro/Jersey and Glassfish 3.1.2, but accessing the WebServiceContext resource always causes a null pointer exception,

Answer 1

The difference is that the default GlassFish implementation is a JAX-WS SOAP-based web service. For a JAX-RS web service, you should use the following annotation to inject the context.

 @Context 
 private ServletContext sc;

There are other types that you can use @Context annotation to inject, such as UriInfo, HttpHeaders. Please see Jersey documentation for details. WebServiceContext and MessageContext are JAX-WS objects that have no meaning in the JAX-RS context.