On Mar 6, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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.
I would agree. Except SSE _is designed_ to work on HTTP and it is how HTML5 clients use it. I think you're mixing up SSE with WebSockets. Please take a look at the specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
-- Santiago