How to upgrade Jersey 2.2 to Glassfish 4?

Question

I've tried to upgrade the Jersey 2.2 to the Glassfish 4 by replacing the following jars at the [gf_home]/glassfish/modules with version 2.2

1. jersey-bean-validation.jar
2. jersey-client.jar
3. jersey-common.jar
4. jersey-container-grizzly2-http.jar
5. jersey-container-servlet-core.jar
6. jersey-container-servlet.jar
7. jersey-gf-cdi.jar
8. jersey-gf-ejb.jar
9. jersey-media-json-jackson.jar
10. jersey-media-json-jettison.jar
11. jersey-media-json-processing.jar
12. jersey-media-moxy.jar
13. jersey-media-multipart.jar
14. jersey-media-sse.jar
15. jersey-mvc-connector.jar
16. jersey-mvc-jsp.jar
17. jersey-mvc.jar
18. jersey-server.jar

After clearing the [gf_home]/glassfish/glassfish/domains/domain1/osgi-cache and try to start the glassfish but there is no luck. Could you please help to advise further?

Answer 1

the approach you did is correct. The problem is that Glassfish 4.0 might not work with newest Jersey version as there might be incompatibilities. Jersey is used internally in Glassfish and when there is a problem with incompatible Jersey versions, Glassfish might not even start (like in your case).

You can try using one of the Glassfish night builds which have already Jersey 2.2 integrated.

http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/glassfish/4.0.1/nightly/

The link is accessible from http://glassfish.org (Download->Work in progress). Night build versions might be unstable.

You can try for example build: http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/glassfish/4.0.1/nightly/glassfish-4.0.1-b02-08_22_2013.zip

Mira

EDIT 1

In the following article you can find a script that does the update of Jersey 2 in GlassFish 4.0.1 for you:

• Updating Jersey 2 in GlassFish 4