Recently due to update of resteasy-client from 3.0.1.Final to 3.6.3.Final we faced failures to process our spring mvc controller at '/' path.

After some debugging I found out the reason:

1) resteasy-client transitively depends on resteasy-jaxrs

2) resteasy-jaxrs (at least since 3.0.20.final) 

(see commit  https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy/commit/840cb666c8e89767e9c9821eb173b770f304a4c0#diff-a79efbb9c42288fc7f4e7580fd71bedf)

registers org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServlet30Dispatcher as a servlet with value = '')

Is it an expected behaviour that client dependency register a servlet?

Are there any ways to disable it?

Thanks for advice!