> > I don't know. Maybe because one is an OSGi or Spring purist or wants
> to run the service in Google AppEngine or ...
> >
>
> I have *a lot* of users that don't want to run in a full EE
> environment.
> I have a few that just want to run within an embeddable HTTP engine
> (not even within a Servlet container). I will fight to the death of
> adding any required feature that mandates EE or doesn't allow for a
> standalone JAX-RS implementation.
With "full" you mean the web profile? Are there actually JAX-RS enabled containers left over that would not fulfil that?