Yes that could work. I wonder how other application servers are dealing with this. It would be nice to find a solution that could one day make it into a Servlet and/or JAX-RS maintenance release so that we won't need to rely on proprietary deployment descriptors in the future.
> This goes back to your original question:
>
> How can I make GlassFish use custom error pages for
> all URI's that
> do not start with /rest/ ?
> Perhaps the new configuration in sun-web.xml that
> will be used
> to disable the default error page could specify a
> comma-separated
> list of request url-patterns (path prefices) as its
> value. An empty list
> would disable the default error page for the entire
> application.
>
> Jan
>
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