gradle-jersey-jetty-sample

Application.java

package com.starqle.hcm;

import com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;

public class Application {
    public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception {
        ServletHolder sh = new ServletHolder(ServletContainer.class);
        sh.setInitParameter("com.sun.jersey.config.property.resourceConfigClass", "com.sun.jersey.api.core.PackagesResourceConfig");
        sh.setInitParameter("com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages", "com.starqle.hcm");
        sh.setInitParameter("com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature", "true");

        Server server = new Server(8080);
        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
        server.setHandler(context);

        context.addServlet(sh, "/*");
        server.start();
        server.join();
    }
}

build.gradle

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'jetty'

sourceCompatibility = 1.5
version = '1.0'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'
    testCompile group: 'org.hamcrest', name: 'hamcrest-all', version: '1.3'
    testCompile group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-client', version: '1.18.2'
    compile group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-core', version: '1.18.2'
    compile group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-server', version: '1.18.2'
    compile group: 'com.sun.jersey', name: 'jersey-servlet', version: '1.18.2'
    compile group: 'org.eclipse.jetty', name: 'jetty-server', version: '9.2.4.v20141103'
    compile group: 'org.eclipse.jetty', name: 'jetty-servlet', version: '9.2.4.v20141103'
}

MyResource.java

package com.starqle.hcm;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;

@Path("myresource")
public class MyResource {

    @GET
    @Path("getIt")
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String getIt() {
        return "Get it!";
    }

}

would not like to offend you by my comment but I don't know the directory structure that could be used for building your code up to being deployable ... if you can give a GitHub link to the project ( with the gists already structured ) then maybe it would be more useful for me and helpful for me.