On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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> On 3/15/12 4:15 PM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>>> On 3/15/12 3:54 PM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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>>>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>>>>> I would say do nothing because it would break existing 1.1 applications when deployed.
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>>>> How so? Before you had to always specify the mapping, and that will continue to take precedence. Can you elaborate?
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>>> We assumed everything could be scanned, you could have an empty web.xml file, and no Application class. This was an incorrect assumption? I know a lot of people use us in this manner. Maybe I just interpreted the 1.1 spec wrong?
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>> Class scanning and servlet mapping are orthogonal. The only way you can get the servlet mapping in 1.1 is from (i) a web.xml or (ii) the @ApplicationPath annotation on an Application subclass AFAICT, with (i) overriding (ii) if both are present. For the other cases, 1.1 states that "the application MUST be packaged with a web.xml that specifies a servlet mapping for the added servlet".
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>> Perhaps you're already using a default in Resteasy?
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> Well, then the spec should allow the case for *no* Application class and no web.xml listing. The default mapping should be "/*" and should work with static content too. This way its very simple for users and no thought has to be put into anything.
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I think so far we can all agree, that a default mapping is good. I want to however point out that suggested "/*" as a default mapping is too aggressive in connection with any other technology that uses some default mapping as well (e.g. JSF). For that reason, I suggest to choose a named default mapping directly under the root path e.g. the "/webapi/*" as proposed earlier.
Marek