restful service interface with jersey

Question

Can I create a restful service with interface and implementation class?

If so, will all JAX-RS related imports go into the interface?

I am using jersey2.4 an

Answer 1

If you want to use interfaces with JAX-RS annotation you can no longer scan a package with the web.xml

jersey.config.server.provider.packages
XXX

You need to manually bind your interface with your resource implementation

bind(YourResource.class).to(YourResourceImpl.class);

Reason for this :

We decided for performance reasons that during scanning the interfaces will be ignored. Also we fixed that Jersey will not try to instantiate interfaces.

https://java.net/jira/browse/JERSEY-1004