If the @RolesAllowed annotation is not found in the classpath, RESTEasy links fails to produce links for the entity, which should not be necessary since if the class is not found it should not be on the method we're scanning.

The symptomatic stack trace:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/annotation/security/RolesAllowed
at org.jboss.resteasy.links.impl.RESTUtils.checkEJBConstraint(RESTUtils.java:176)
at org.jboss.resteasy.links.impl.RESTUtils.checkConstraint(RESTUtils.java:170)
at org.jboss.resteasy.links.impl.RESTUtils.processLinkResource(RESTUtils.java:131)
at org.jboss.resteasy.links.impl.RESTUtils.processLinkResources(RESTUtils.java:113)
at org.jboss.resteasy.links.impl.RESTUtils.addDiscovery(RESTUtils.java:56)
at org.jboss.resteasy.links.impl.LinkDecorator$1.beforeMarshal(LinkDecorator.java:27)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.XMLSerializer.fireBeforeMarshalEvents(XMLSerializer.java:740)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.XMLSerializer.childAsRoot(XMLSerializer.java:479)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.MarshallerImpl.write(MarshallerImpl.java:314)
at com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.runtime.MarshallerImpl.marshal(MarshallerImpl.java:243)
at javax.xml.bind.helpers.AbstractMarshallerImpl.marshal(AbstractMarshallerImpl.java:75)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.providers.jaxb.AbstractJAXBProvider.writeTo(AbstractJAXBProvider.java:105)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception.MessageBodyWriterContextImpl.proceed(MessageBodyWriterContextImpl.java:117)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.interceptors.encoding.GZIPEncodingInterceptor.write(GZIPEncodingInterceptor.java:48)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.interception.MessageBodyWriterContextImpl.proceed(MessageBodyWriterContextImpl.java:123)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ServerResponse.writeTo(ServerResponse.java:186)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.writeJaxrsResponse(SynchronousDispatcher.java:530)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.invoke(SynchronousDispatcher.java:467)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.invoke(SynchronousDispatcher.java:117)