I’m creating a simple “self-hosted” rest application with jersey and jakarta.

Main Method:

@ApplicationPath("/")
public class Program extends ResourceConfig {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

        final ResourceConfig resourceConfig = new Program();
        resourceConfig.register(VersionController.class);
        resourceConfig.register(VersionService.class);
        resourceConfig.register(VersionServiceImpl.class);

        final HttpServer server = HttpServer.createSimpleServer(null, 8080);
        server.getServerConfiguration().addHttpHandler(RuntimeDelegate.getInstance().createEndpoint(resourceConfig, HttpHandler.class));

        server.start();
        Thread.currentThread().join();
    }
}

Controller:

@jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/version")
public class VersionController {

    @jakarta.ws.rs.core.Context
    private ResourceContext resourceContext;    // This injection works

    @jakarta.inject.Inject
    private VersionService service; // Fails:

    @jakarta.ws.rs.GET
    @jakarta.ws.rs.Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String getVersion() {
        //return "Hello From Service Controller"; /* works when @Inject is removed */
        return service.getAppVersion();
    }
}

Service Interface:

@Contract
public interface VersionService {
    String getAppVersion();
}

Service Implementation:

@Service
@RequestScoped
public class VersionServiceImpl implements VersionService {

    @Override
    public String getAppVersion() {
        String version = getClass().getPackage().getImplementationVersion();
        if(version==null || version.isBlank()) {
            return "Unknown";
        } else {
            return version;
        }
    }
}

My controller works perfectly fine if I remove @Inject private VersionService service;. With @Inject I get the following error:

WARNING: An exception mapping did not successfully produce and processed a response. Logging the exception propagated to the default exception mapper.
org.glassfish.hk2.api.UnsatisfiedDependencyException: There was no object available in __HK2_Generated_0 for injection at SystemInjecteeImpl(requiredType=VersionService,parent=VersionController,qualifiers={},position=-1,optional=false,self=false,unqualified=null,70775954)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: While attempting to resolve the dependencies of com.example.controller.rest.VersionController errors were found
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: resolve on com.example.controller.rest.VersionController

What am I missing? In my pom.xml I have latest versions of jersey-container-grizzly2-http and jersey-hk2 (version 4.0.0-M1) running on JDK-21. I gave older versions a try, but resulted in same error.

I also get the following warnings at the start of the application:

WARNING: A class jakarta.activation.DataSource for a default provider MessageBodyWriter<jakarta.activation.DataSource> was not found. The provider is not available.
WARNING: JAX-B API not found . WADL feature is disabled.
WARNING: A provider com.example.operation.ix.VersionService registered in SERVER runtime does not implement any provider interfaces applicable in the SERVER runtime. Due to constraint configuration problems the provider com.example.operation.ix.VersionService will be ignored. 
WARNING: A provider com.example.operation.VersionServiceImpl registered in SERVER runtime does not implement any provider interfaces applicable in the SERVER runtime. Due to constraint configuration problems the provider com.example.operation.VersionServiceImpl will be ignored.

I feel that the problem is as simple as like I’m missing a dependency. I tried adding jakarta.jakartaee-api, jakarta.inject-api, jaxb-runtime and a few others, but the problem persisted. Some other things that I already tried without success are: adding ServiceLocator and ServiceLocatorProvider, using ServiceLocatorUtilities.createAndPopulateServiceLocator(), etc.