This request relates to http://jbossmobile.blogspot.com/2011/08/mobile-access-to-restful-web-service.html
What the tutorial currently uses is a pruned version of resteasy-2.2.1 which I copied to this repository
https://github.com/tdiesler/resteasy-mobile

If you checkout the sources and do a diff, you should see a number of [TDI] markers that mark necessary changes to make the resteasy client work in android.

Ideally, the mobile client jar would be

• maintained by the resteasy project
• be lightweight and easy to include in a mobile app
• leverage availale APIs from the mobile platform

I hardcoded the client to use ApacheHttpClient4Executor, which is available in the SDK
Perhaps you could provide a JSON Provider that uses this API. In which case the dependencies on jackson jars could be removed.

I believe it is important to own the integration (i.e. bring jboss tech to the client device), which is the main motivation for this exercise.