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Re: How to make META-INF/mailcap visible to Java EE apps [Was: Re: OSGi confusion...]

From: Peter Williams <Pete.Williams_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 20:10:46 -0700

Why can't we make it just work seamlessly, the way it would in V2.1?
What is the cost of doing this? Can it be done? How much work is it
and what are the drawbacks?

-Peter

Sahoo wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> An alternative way to achieve this is to package such resources in a
>>> separate jar and make the jar available in glassfish lib directory.
>> True, but it breaks backwards compatibility and the customer would
>> have to know they need to do this. These systems are supposed to
>> "just work". Some failures may be hard to diagnose, especially since
>> they will be unexpected (due to compatibility expectations). In
>> other situations, it may not be clear there even is a failure -- just
>> some weird and rare seemingly random problem.
> I am not asking customers to create those library jars. Why can't we
> install those jars in lib dir for things to work smoothly in v3?
>
> Thanks,
> Sahoo
>
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