Java 8 Lambda Expression Within REST Service not working

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I found the solution!
I was using Jersey 1.17.1. When I upgraded to 2.7 it worked. My pom file had the following:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-bundle</artifactId>
    <version>1.17.1</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-servlet</artifactId>
    <version>1.17.1</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

I removed those and added:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet</artifactId>
    <version>2.7</version>
</dependency>

And of course I had to modify the web.xml file to have:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>javax.ws.rs.core.Application</servlet-name>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>javax.ws.rs.core.Application</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/rs/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Now everything is working well. The question is: Why were lambda expressions still failing when I removed them from the REST class and put them in a non-REST class? Just the fact I was including Jersey 1.x was enough to crash when using lambda expressions (whether or not an actual REST service was involved). But at any rate, I’m pleased the project is working again; I had been wanting to upgrade to the latest version of jax-rs & Jersey anyway so this forced me to do it (costing me several hours of work and need to explain to the “SCRUM master” why my estimate is off (don’t get me started on that topic). Now if I can only figure out why Jersey 2 is returning XML when I told it to return JSON I’ll be back on track.

Thanks everyone for your help!

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