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[jax-rs-spec users] [jsr339-experts] Re: Re: MVC

From: Bill Burke <bburke_at_redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 08:59:41 -0400

On 6/3/2014 6:56 AM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> Hi Bill
> On 02/06/14 13:32, Bill Burke wrote:
>> So far I just have little things that I've run into over the past year:
>>
>> * Basic Auth support in the client API
>> * Allow ContainerRequestContext and ContainerResponseContext to be
>> injectable via @Context.
>> * add method for obtaining client IP address to ContainerRequestContext
>> * Injectable ContainerRequestContext allows properties to be viewed/set
>> in JAX-RS methods
>> * Injectable ContainerResponseContext allows Locators to add things like
>> cookies to the response.
>> * Some standard way of doing a forward like in Servlet spec.
>> * Allow filters to be bindable via a @Path expression.
>> * @Context should work directly with application class. i.e. you should
>> be able to inject
>>
>> class MyApplication extends Application {}
>>
>> via
>>
>> @Context MyApplication app;
>>
>
> All of it is possibly a very good list of improvements but I'm not
> seeing it qualifying for JAXRS.next as in really the next phase of
> JAX-RS development/improvement, it is a list of improving of what we
> already have, except for
>

Why the urge or need to create a JAXRS.next. Are you bored? Minus some
incremental improvement, JAX-RS is done IMO. There's always this
propensity to "rule the world".


>
> "Some standard way of doing a forward like in Servlet spec."
>
> I read it as "support MVC" :-). I'm not 100% sure how Jersey does,
> probably via RequestDispatcher.forward too, but this is how CXF
> 'controls' binding the 'model' to the 'view' handlers
>


No, it just means i want a way to forward to static resources. Big
difference from creating a full-blown MVC framework.


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