Getting root cause java.lang.AbstractMethodError while using Jersey ContainerRequestFilter

Question

INFO: Server startup in 6705 ms
Nov 29, 2013 6:17:38 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [JerseyServlet] in         


        

Answer 1

you have a maven dependency issue, delete all your dependencies in particular the conteiner jersey dependency and add this ones:

<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
<version>1.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-multipart</artifactId>
<version>1.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-jaxrs-json-provider</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

I needed a more specific answer to the problem so I added the following plugin to maven:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>enforce</id>
      <configuration>
        <rules>
          <dependencyConvergence/>
        </rules>
      </configuration>
      <goals>
        <goal>enforce</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

The above showed me all the dependency conflicts so I managed to resolved more than the aforementioned problem and keep my dependency tree tidy.

The plugin runs when calling:

mvn clean install

And shows you a warning as follows:

[WARNING] 
Dependency convergence error for com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.8.10 paths to dependency are:
+-com.omilia:partners:5.4.0-RC-3
  +-org.glassfish.jersey.media:jersey-media-json-jackson:2.27
    +-com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-jaxb-annotations:2.8.10
      +-com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.8.10
and
+-com.omilia:partners:5.4.0-RC-3
  +-com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.6
    +-com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.9.6

Subsequently, you can exclude the specific package, when referencing your dependency in your pom:

<exclusion>
  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>

More Information can be found here:

Dependency Convergence Maven Documentation

Answer 3

It seems that you're using Jersey 1.x (JAX-RS 1.1 implementation) with JAX-RS 2.0 APIs. In your application either switch to Jersey 2 (recommended) or replace JAX-RS 2.0 API jar with JAX-RS 1.1 API jar (it's already part of the jersey-common so removing 2.0 API should be sufficient).