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> That was our focus on the limited design of just building web app descriptor state just for the Jersey servlet container and extensions of as a filter or servlet, that has init params, rather than being a general programatic way of building state of a web app.
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> AppDescriptor is extensible so we could do something more general, that has the concept of zero or more filters each of which may have zero or more init params, without breaking the existing API.
So, maybe I am trying to do more with it then I really should be introducing spring, spring-security and then finally SSL to do some end-to-end testing? Perhaps I should just deploy it to a real container and use the external testing methods of the framework? It is nice to have everything in one self-contained test though.. and it really would be nice to be able test the resources complete.
thanks,
-jr