Example JAX-RS Application Setup (Jersey/Tomcat 8)
This is a simple maven project that should allow you to use JAX-RS (via Jersey) with Apache Tomcat. There is an application class called ExampleApplication : javax.ws.rs.core.Application and one REST service called TestJaxRsService.
When running the REST service will be available at <host>/examplejaxrs/services/items and return a 'Hello, world' message.
The application was tested with Apache Tomcat versions 8.0 and 8.5.