Ok, it's been a long time. I have faced too many issues and got solutions for quite a few of them. I don't think I have time to log all of them properly so I'll just put them in minimum words here and if I ever get some time I'll properly format these entries.
I was working with CXF Rest services and I just could not figure out why my service was giving 404. Other service with virtually same configuration were working and some were giving flat out 404.
After taking a look at logs I found that for these services (404) there were entries like class xyz doesn't has no JAX-RS Path or HTTP Method.
I was trying to find the differences between the working and non working services. Every service had an interface and implementation class. Annotations were applied to the interfaces. Almost everything looked normal.
Then I finally saw that some of the JAX RS annotations were present in the implementation classes for the services giving 404. As soon as I removed them, Viola! it worked like magic.
After all this work and searching I was thinking why would you do this to me ( CXF ?).
As it turns out if a concrete REST class contains any REST annotations then it's super class/interface is not scanned for annotations.
I can almost swear that it worked for older versions of CXF, anyway all is well if it ends well.
CXF version used : 3.15
I was working with CXF Rest services and I just could not figure out why my service was giving 404. Other service with virtually same configuration were working and some were giving flat out 404.
After taking a look at logs I found that for these services (404) there were entries like class xyz doesn't has no JAX-RS Path or HTTP Method.
I was trying to find the differences between the working and non working services. Every service had an interface and implementation class. Annotations were applied to the interfaces. Almost everything looked normal.
Then I finally saw that some of the JAX RS annotations were present in the implementation classes for the services giving 404. As soon as I removed them, Viola! it worked like magic.
After all this work and searching I was thinking why would you do this to me ( CXF ?).
As it turns out if a concrete REST class contains any REST annotations then it's super class/interface is not scanned for annotations.
I can almost swear that it worked for older versions of CXF, anyway all is well if it ends well.
CXF version used : 3.15
