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standalone use of Tomcat 8 websocket-api.jar getWebSocketContainer returning null

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I'm trying to use the Tomcat8 jsr client functionality in a standalone java client. I'm trying to use the minimal number of jars, so I gabbed websocket-api.jar ONLY. When I call ContainerProvider.getWebSocketContainer(), it returns null. Do I need another jar to resolve this on the client?

posted Aug 22, 2013 by Kumar Mitrasen

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Yes. You need tomcat-websocket.jar (the implementation) and its dependencies (tomcat-juli.jar and tomcat-util.jar). It is possible to split the implementation into client and server but we haven't done that. It isn't like the JARs are that big anyway.

answer Aug 22, 2013 by Garima Jain
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