On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> Even if it was "forbidden" it certainly can't be enforced. Historically, the problems with threading were there was no way to propagate security/transactional contexts, I think this is changed now that EJB has an async layer.
>
> On 6/16/12 9:50 AM, Markus KARG wrote:
>> Experts,
>>
>> some weeks ago we discussed server sided use of the new JAX-RS client
>> API, e. g. to pull information from an external RESTful web service.
>>
Not sure how that helps - usually the upstream response will need to go into the response the server works on.
Jan
>> As I remember, at least for EJBs (SBs, MDBs) it is forbidden to use
>> blocking operations, threading operations, files API and sockets API.
>> All this for the sake of stability and security. So the good question
>> now is: Is this at least allowed for managed beans (CDI / JSF) or
>> servlets? Anybody being a member of that particular EGs, knowing the
>> answer for sure? Because if the same rule would apply to managed beans,
>> JSF and servlets, what server side use case did we actually had in mind
>> back then? RAR? JCA? Please comment. :-)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Markus
>>
>
> --
> Bill Burke
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
> http://bill.burkecentral.com
>
>