How to annotate Jersey POJO when Impl is remote?

I have 2 JVM's.

JettyJVM Runs http requests and has an interface CarFacade that is backed using RmiProxyFactoryBean to the CarFacadeImpl running in the CoreJVM

CoreJVM Runs core business logic in a spring container and has CarFacadeImpl

This setup works currently for flex/blazds and my services are exposed nicely.

Is there any way I can also expose this via Jersey?

I tried with the annotations on the Impl (preferred) but the component scan doesn't find the annotations (obviously as the interface doesn't have them) So I tried with the annotations on the Interface but jersey says it can't instantiate the interface.

I would really like to not have to write an additional layer just to expose via rest.

I have tried the examples from here http://ift.tt/1DtE4hq and they work without the RMI call in between.