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How to upgrade to Jakarta RS 3 - WebEngine

Updated: April 17, 2025

Introduction

While the upgrade to Jakarta RS 3 is part of the Jakarta EE 10 one, it has its own section because the implementation (Jersey), leveraged by Nuxeo WebEngine, has more changes.

Nuxeo WebEngine has undergone breaking changes to benefit from the new Jakarta RS additions.

You must first follow the How to upgrade to Jakarta EE 10 page.

JAX-RS occurrences have been replaced by REST within the Nuxeo Server codebase.

Maven Dependency

In addition to the Jakarta RS Specification and Implementation dependencies to change, you will need to update:

  • nuxeo-webengine-jaxrs to nuxeo-webengine-rest
  • nuxeo-importer-jaxrs to nuxeo-importer-rest
  • nuxeo-target-platforms-jaxrs to nuxeo-target-platforms-rest
  • nuxeo-template-rendering-jaxrs to nuxeo-template-rendering-rest

Java Code

One of the biggest change in the Jersey Implementation is the total rework of their Dependency Injection engine. It is now more extendable, and better fits with the direction of Jakarta RS specification to support jakarta.inject-api annotations, such as @Singleton which is currently used.

Package

The following Nuxeo packages have changed in order to remove JAX-RS occurrences:

  • org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.rest
  • org.nuxeo.ecm.restapi.server.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.ecm.restapi.server
  • org.nuxeo.ecm.automation.jaxrs.io to org.nuxeo.ecm.automation.io.rest
  • org.nuxeo.ecm.automation.server.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.ecm.automation.server.rest
  • org.nuxeo.targetplatforms.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.targetplatforms.rest
  • org.nuxeo.template.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.template.rest

If you were extending the Nuxeo REST API, your package org.nuxeo.ecm.restapi.server.jaxrs must be updated to org.nuxeo.ecm.restapi.server to keep the Package Scan working.

Nuxeo Component

The following Nuxeo bundle names have changed in order to remove JAX-RS occurrences:

  • org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.rest
  • org.nuxeo.targetplatforms.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.targetplatforms.rest
  • org.nuxeo.template.manager.jaxrs to org.nuxeo.template.manager.rest

@Deploy annotation in test classes must be updated accordingly.

Message Body Writer Selection Algorithm

The MessageBodyWriter is retrieved differently in this upgrade as explained in the Jakarta Documentation.

The impact on the WebEngine application code is that Jersey now makes more use of Java Reflection to retrieve the right MessageBodyWriter, and so declaring the generic Object type may cause errors.

For example, following method in a resource/WebObject:

    @GET
    public Object doGet() {
        return new DocumentModelImpl(...);
    }

May produce this kind of errors:

Caused by: org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.MessageBodyProviderNotFoundException: MessageBodyWriter not found for media type=application/json, type=class org.nuxeo.ecm.core.api.impl.DocumentModelImpl, genericType=class java.lang.Object.
    at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.WriterInterceptorExecutor$TerminalWriterInterceptor.aroundWriteTo(WriterInterceptorExecutor.java:248) ~[jersey-common-2.27.jar:?]
    at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.WriterInterceptorExecutor.proceed(WriterInterceptorExecutor.java:163) ~[jersey-common-2.27.jar:?]
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.JsonWithPaddingInterceptor.aroundWriteTo(JsonWithPaddingInterceptor.java:109) ~[jersey-server-2.27.jar:?]
    at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.WriterInterceptorExecutor.proceed(WriterInterceptorExecutor.java:163) ~[jersey-common-2.27.jar:?]
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.MappableExceptionWrapperInterceptor.aroundWriteTo(MappableExceptionWrapperInterceptor.java:85) ~[jersey-server-2.27.jar:?]
    ... 66 more

Caused by: javax.ws.rs.NotAcceptableException: HTTP 406 Not Acceptable
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.routing.MethodSelectingRouter.getMethodRouter(MethodSelectingRouter.java:471)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.routing.MethodSelectingRouter.access$000(MethodSelectingRouter.java:73)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.routing.MethodSelectingRouter$4.apply(MethodSelectingRouter.java:673)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.routing.MethodSelectingRouter.apply(MethodSelectingRouter.java:304)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.routing.RoutingStage._apply(RoutingStage.java:86)
    at org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.routing.RoutingStage._apply(RoutingStage.java:89)

In such cases you should declare the concrete type: DocoumentModel.

If the method returns different incompatible types, you can replace Object by jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response (and adapt the code to return a Response with help of ResponseBuilder). This ensures that Jersey does not rely on method reflection introspection.

WebContext Managed by A Jakarta Provider

Previously, the WebContext was initialized with a Servlet Filter, and filled later on with its HttpHeaders and UriInfo. Now in LTS 2025, the WebContext is initialiazed by a Jakarta Provider and is immutable. This allows to access the context in any Jakarta objects with the help of the @Context annotation.

If you are overriding the WebEngineModule#getClasses without getting the result from the super class, you must add the WebContextProvider to the classes:

import org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.app.WebContextProvider;

public class MyModule extends WebEngineModule {

    @Override
    public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
        var result = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
        result.add(WebContextProvider.class);
        return result;
    }
}

Otherwise you may have such exception:

Caused by: org.glassfish.hk2.api.MultiException: A MultiException has 2 exceptions.  They are:
1. java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.model.WebContext.getModule()" because "context" is null
2. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: method inject on org.nuxeo.modyle.rest.MyModuleRoot

    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.create(ClazzCreator.java:368) ~[hk2-locator-2.6.1.jar:?]
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.SystemDescriptor.create(SystemDescriptor.java:463) ~[hk2-locator-2.6.1.jar:?]
    at org.glassfish.jersey.inject.hk2.RequestContext.findOrCreate(RequestContext.java:59) ~[jersey-hk2-2.43.jar:?]
    ...
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.model.WebContext.getModule()" because "context" is null
    at org.nuxeo.ecm.webengine.model.impl.ModuleRoot.setContext(ModuleRoot.java:55) ~[classes/:?]
    ...

Form APIs have been removed from WebContext

The Form APIs have been removed from the WebContext class in order to leverage the Jersey provided feature.

If you were using the WebContext#getForm() method, you must upgrade your code to leverage method parameters.

For example, the following code:

    @POST
    public Response doPost() {
        DocumentModel doc = getTarget().getAdapter(DocumentModel.class);
        FormData form = ctx.getForm();
        form.fillDocument(doc);
        String xpath = ctx.getForm().getString(FormData.PROPERTY);
        Blob blob = form.getFirstBlob();
        if (xpath == null || blob == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Illegal parameters");
        }
        ...
    }

Should be updated to:

import javax.ws.rs.FormParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
import org.glassfish.jersey.media.multipart.FormDataParam;

    @POST
    public Response doPost(MultivaluedMap<String, String> formParams, @FormParam("property") String xpath,
            @FormDataParam("content") Blob blob) {
        DocumentModel doc = getTarget().getAdapter(DocumentModel.class);
        DocumentHelper.fillDocument(doc, formParams);
        if (xpath == null || blob == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Illegal parameters");
        }
        ...
    }

The @FormParam annotations allow retrieving the value of the named form parameter. If you need dynamic access to form parameters, you should declare one parameter with MultivaluedMap<String, String> that will collect them.

ModuleRoot Does Not Hold HttpServletRequest Anymore

The HttpServletRequest request field present in ModuleRoot has been removed as it is not needed anymore since WebContext can be retrieved from the Jakarta Context.

If you need it, just declare it as a field or method parameter in your code:


    @Context
    protected HttpServletRequest request;

WebEngine Module Singletons

The support of singletons has been marked as deprecated in Jakarta RS 3, we encourage you to update your WebEngine Module getSingletons method to getClasses and leverage the new Jersey Dependency Injection engine to handle their lifecycle.

If your WebEngine Module looks like this:

public class MyModule extends WebEngineModule {

    @Override
    public Set<Object> getSingletons() {
        var result = new HashSet<>();
        result.add(new MyModuleExceptionMapper());
        return result;
    }
}

public class MyModuleExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper<Exception> {

    @Override
    public Response toResponse(Exception exception) {
        return Response.status(500).build();
    }
}

You should update it to:

public class MyModule extends WebEngineModule {

    @Override
    public Set<Class<?>> getClasses() {
        var result = new HashSet<Class<?>>();
        result.add(MyModuleExceptionMapper.class);
        return result;
    }
}

import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
import jakarta.ws.rs.ext.Provider;

@Singleton
@Provider
public class MyModuleExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper<Exception> {

    @Override
    public Response toResponse(Exception exception) {
        return Response.status(500).build();
    }
}

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