JAX-RS failed to inject @EJB or @Inject

Question

I\'m trying to test a minimal JAX-RS + EJB/CDI injection mechanism and currently hitting a road-block due to GlassFish unable to inject for whatever reason.

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Answer 1

Indeed, Jersey does not handle properly dependency injection. So far it seems to be reported and aimed for future releases. http://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-517

Facing same issue I had to implement context lookup to get access to managed resource.

So try something like this in your WS constructor:

employeeService = (ApplicationScopedEmployeeServiceImpl) new
                   InitialContext().lookup("java:global/EJB/EmployeeService");