Deploying Messyly on Glassfish 4.1

I have a problem with my REST application using Resteasy. When I deploy my application with these dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
    <artifactId>resteasy-servlet-initializer</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.11.Final</version>
</dependency>

      

        
        
        
      

    

as described here in chapter 3.5, sometimes the server deploys the application correctly and everything works fine.

But sometimes I get

Error invoking ServletContainerInitializer 
org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.servlet.ResteasyServletInitializer
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.servlet.ResteasyServletInitializer.register(ResteasyServletInitializer.java:109)
    at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.servlet.ResteasyServletInitializer.onStartup(ResteasyServletInitializer.java:80)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.callServletContainerInitializers(StandardContext.java:6031)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.callServletContainerInitializers(WebModule.java:774)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:5929)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebModule.start(WebModule.java:691)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:1041)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:1024)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:747)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:2286)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebContainer.loadWebModule(WebContainer.java:1932)
    at com.sun.enterprise.web.WebApplication.start(WebApplication.java:139)
    at org.glassfish.internal.data.EngineRef.start(EngineRef.java:122)
    at org.glassfish.internal.data.ModuleInfo.start(ModuleInfo.java:291)
    at org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo.start(ApplicationInfo.java:352)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLifecycle.deploy(ApplicationLifecycle.java:500)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.processApplication(ApplicationLoaderService.java:406)
    at com.sun.enterprise.v3.server.ApplicationLoaderService.postConstruct(ApplicationLoaderService.java:243)
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.postConstructMe(ClazzCreator.java:329)
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ClazzCreator.create(ClazzCreator.java:377)
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.SystemDescriptor.create(SystemDescriptor.java:461)
    at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.AsyncRunLevelContext.findOrCreate(AsyncRunLevelContext.java:227)
    at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.RunLevelContext.findOrCreate(RunLevelContext.java:84)
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.Utilities.createService(Utilities.java:2258)
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:105)
    at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.ServiceHandleImpl.getService(ServiceHandleImpl.java:87)
    at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.CurrentTaskFuture$QueueRunner.oneJob(CurrentTaskFuture.java:1162)
    at org.glassfish.hk2.runlevel.internal.CurrentTaskFuture$QueueRunner.run(CurrentTaskFuture.java:1147)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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In the line sources ResteasyServletInitializer 109 this (with context)

ServletRegistration.Dynamic reg = servletContext.addServlet(applicationClass.getName(), HttpServlet30Dispatcher.class);
reg.setLoadOnStartup(1); //Line 109
reg.setAsyncSupported(true);
reg.setInitParameter("javax.ws.rs.Application", applicationClass.getName());

      

        
        
        
      

    

So my guess is that it is Glassfish's fault and Glassfish was unable to return the correct object correctly. I haven't found this to happen with redeployments, after clearing osgi cache, etc. It seems pretty random.

It seems to be related and I tried adding

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

      

        
        
        
      

    

But it still fails, although I would say it doesn't happen that often. The accepted answer from the post is not recommended as the link restaasy 3.9. RESTEasy is like ServletContextListener so I don't want to try this. This is more like avoiding a problem rather than solving it.

My Glassfish version is GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 4.1 (build 13).

Please help me with this.

Greetings