How to deploy java jersey and Grizzly on Windows Server

Question

I have developed jersey web service server on mac os x. I have been testing by running it using maven command line: mvn exec:java and it works just fine. I'm currently running my web services in grizzly.

Now i would need to deploy to Windows Server 2008. What should I do?

I have been reading the deployment documentation on jersey here.

1. Do I need to follow section 4.2(JAX-RS Application Model) to 4.4(Configuring the Classpath Scanning)?
2. Do i just run the maven command line in windows? ie: mvn exec:java
3. Do I need to compile into a jar file? I have tried compiling into jar file but I encounter errors.

This is how I compiled the jar file: mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true package
This is how i ran the jar file: java -jar application.jar. Here is the error:

MyName-MacBook-Pro:target myname$ java -jar application-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/glassfish/grizzly/http/server/HttpServer at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2531) at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2774) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1663) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(LauncherHelper.java:494) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:486) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServer at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) ... 6 more

Here is the content of my pom.xml:

http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>org.company</groupId>
<artifactId>application</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>application</name>

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-bom</artifactId>
            <version>${jersey.version}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-container-grizzly2-http</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <!-- uncomment this to get JSON support:
     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-media-moxy</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.9</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

  <!--  Gson: Java to Json conversion -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.4</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>            <groupId>mysql</groupId>            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
      <version>5.1.6</version>        </dependency>
          <!-- Apache Log4J -->       <dependency>            <groupId>log4j</groupId>            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>          <version>1.2.17</version>
  </dependency>
      </dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.5.1</version>
            <inherited>true</inherited>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
                <archive>
                  <manifest>
                      <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                      <classpathPrefix>lib</classpathPrefix>
                      <mainClass>org.company.Main</mainClass>
                  </manifest>
              </archive>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>java</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <mainClass>org.company.Main</mainClass>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <archive>
              <manifest>
                  <mainClass>org.company.Main</mainClass>
              </manifest>
            </archive>
          </configuration>            </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

<properties>
    <jersey.version>2.7</jersey.version>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties> </project>

Answer 1

You need to use the Apache Maven Shade Plugin (or a similar plugin) to build your Uber Jar (a jar with all dependencies included). Then take this jar to your server and run with:

java -jar bla.jar PATH_TO_POSSIBLE_CONFIG_FILE