One issue might be an incorrect build of artemis-rest.war. The war does not contain any server libs as described in https://activemq.apache.org/artemis/docs/latest/rest.html
Quote: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>org.somebody</groupId> <artifactId>artemis-rest</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <name>My App</name> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.activemq.rest</groupId> <artifactId>artemis-rest</artifactId> <version>$VERSION</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>*</groupId> <artifactId>*</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> -- Sent from: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-User-f2341805.html