Spring Boot Jersey App Error in Tomcat 8.5 AbstractMethodError: javax.ws.rs.core.UriBuilder.uri

Question

When i am running spring boot jersey app on STS IDE as spring boot app. It runs without issues.

IDE

However when i deploy the app as WAR on tomcat 8.5,I get below error

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
org.springframework.web.filter.RequestContextFilter.doFilterInternal(RequestContextFilter.java:99)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:101)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:101)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:101)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:101)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.doFilter(ErrorPageFilter.java:108)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.forwardToErrorPage(ErrorPageFilter.java:183)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.handleException(ErrorPageFilter.java:166)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.doFilter(ErrorPageFilter.java:130)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.access$000(ErrorPageFilter.java:59)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter$1.doFilterInternal(ErrorPageFilter.java:90)
org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:107)
org.springframework.boot.web.support.ErrorPageFilter.doFilter(ErrorPageFilter.java:108)

I found some answers on stackoverflow, they refer to to JAX-RS 2.0 method being called with jersey 1.* dependency. I tried to fix this by excluding pom.xml dependencies referring to jersey 1.*. This didn't work.I am not sure what else to do.

POM below

<dependencies>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
      <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.1</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jersey</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-data-rest-hal-browser</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-hateoas</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
      <optional>true</optional>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
      <scope>test</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
      <artifactId>ojdbc7</artifactId>
      <version>12.1.0.2</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
      <artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
      <version>3.4</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs</groupId>
      <artifactId>jackson-jaxrs-json-provider</artifactId>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
      <scope>compile</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
      <version>1.4.1</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
      <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
      <version>6.1.0.jre8</version>
      <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
            <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
      <artifactId>cxf-rt-rs-security-cors</artifactId>
      <version>2.6.1</version>
      <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
   </dependency>
</dependencies>

Classes below

class1 class2

Answer 1

Please ref comment by Paul Samsotha.

In my case the cxf-rt-rs-security-cors version 2.6.1 dependency was forcing my app into jersey 1.x. I fixed this by simply removing the dependency from pom as I didn't need it.

However, I am not sure why this exception only occurs on tomcat 8.5 and not on STS IDE embedded server.

Thank you Paul Samsotha :)