On 3/6/2014 9:18 AM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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> On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/6/2014 8:46 AM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
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>>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>> Honestly, I don't see why we should have support for this in JAX-RS. Let the servlet spec handle it.
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>>> Would you mind elaborating on this? I don't know of many developers that would prefer to use servlets over JAX-RS for anything, including new features like SSE.
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>> So, JAX-RS is no longer a REST framework, but now a replacement for servlets?
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> No, but REST frameworks are becoming increasingly popular with thin-server architectures and browser clients. As a developer, it would feel awkward to move from JAX-RS to Servlets just to implement SSE for those clients.
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What would be awkward is having support for a non-HTTP session-based
protocol inside of a REST framework.
>> Are you going to add WebSocket support?
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> No, WebSocket is completely different and it's already in EE 7 (JSR 356).
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Not, its not any different. Both involve sending messages over a
session-based protocol.
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