Procedure 15.9. Enable the RESTEasy/Spring integration functionality

• RESTEasy integrates with Spring 3.0.x.
  Maven users must use the resteasy-spring artifact. Alternatively, the jar is available as a module in JBoss EAP 6.
  RESTEasy comes with its own Spring ContextLoaderListener that registers a RESTEasy specific BeanPostProcessor that processes JAX-RS annotations when a bean is created by a BeanFactory.This means that RESTEasy will automatically scan for @Provider and JAX-RS resource annotations on your bean class and register them as JAX-RS resources.

  Example 15.27. Edit web.xml

  Add the following to your web.xml file to enable the RESTEasy/Spring integration functionality:

  <web-app>
  	<display-name>
  			Archetype Created Web Application
  	</display-name>
  	<listener>
     	<listener-class>
     		org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ResteasyBootstrap
    	</listener-class>
  	</listener>
  
  	<listener>
  	  <listener-class>
    	 		org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.spring.SpringContextLoaderListener
     	</listener-class>
  	</listener>
  
  	<servlet>
    	<servlet-name>Resteasy
    	</servlet-name>
    		<servlet-class>
    			org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher
    		</servlet-class>
  	</servlet>
  
  	<servlet-mapping>
    	<servlet-name>
    		Resteasy
    	</servlet-name>
    	<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  	</servlet-mapping>
  </web-app>
  
  

  The SpringContextLoaderListener must be declared after ResteasyBootstrap as it uses ServletContext attributes initialized by it.