On Aug 21, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 8/21/2012 9:51 AM, Marek Potociar wrote:
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>> On Aug 20, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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>>> I have a few questions on the Application class:
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>>> * Can you have more than one in one WAR?
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>> I'd say yes.
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>>> * Do they share providers? Or are their providers separate and applicable only to the resources that are deployed by that Application class?
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>> I'd say it depends whether or not package scanning kicks in. And even then the provider instances would not be shared IMO.
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>>> Neither of these are covered in the spec as far as I can tell.
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>> If this is something that needs to be clarified in the spec, then please file a Jira issue.
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> I couldn't find anything. We actually assumed that there could only be one Application per war, but it seems Jersey and others allow more than one.
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Just to explain why we do what we do:
The servlet-based deployment of JAX-RS application is bound to a single servlet that serves the app. Since a single web app may contain multiple servlets, support for multiple JAX-RS apps in a single web app is naturally derived from there.
Marek
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