Undesired runtime dependency on EJB classes

I have upgraded my project to Resteasy ver. 3.0.8 and after deploying it to jetty I am getting:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ejb/Stateless
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:14
1)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoade
r.java:421)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoade
r.java:383)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:14
1)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoade
r.java:421)
at org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppClassLoader.loadClass(WebAppClassLoade
r.java:383)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.validation.hibernate.GeneralValidatorImpl.
<clinit>(GeneralValidatorImpl.java:48)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.validation.hibernate.AbstractValidatorCont
extResolver.getGeneralValidator(AbstractValidatorContextResolver.java:48)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.validation.hibernate.AbstractValidatorCont
extResolver.getContext(AbstractValidatorContextResolver.java:54)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.validation.hibernate.ValidatorContextResol
ver.getContext(ValidatorContextResolver.java:16)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.<init>(ResourceMethodIn
voker.java:118)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodRegistry.processMethod(Resource
MethodRegistry.java:280)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodRegistry.register(ResourceMetho
dRegistry.java:251)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodRegistry.addResourceFactory(Res
ourceMethodRegistry.java:221)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodRegistry.addResourceFactory(Res
ourceMethodRegistry.java:193)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodRegistry.addResourceFactory(Res
ourceMethodRegistry.java:179)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.spring.SpringBeanProcessor.onApplicationEv
ent(SpringBeanProcessor.java:486)