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Re: First hurdles

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:55 +0100

Richard Wallace wrote:
>> Potentially this can be hacked into a branch of Jersey as of now. The
>> branch could change the look up of message body writers to not use
>> ProviderFactory e.g. in line 249 of
>>
>> com.sun.ws.rest.spi.container.AbstractContainerResponse
>>
>> and instead defer to the WebApplication instance for getting an
>> appropriate message body writer. The template providers could be
>> hacked in by registering via a resource config property.
>>
>> Would you like to work on a branch of Jersey to experiment?
>>
>>
>
> I would love to if time permitted. I was hoping to get just enough to
> get going on a project I've got coming up soon. Right now I'm
> struggling with what direction to go. I really like elements of the
> Restlet framework, elements of JSR311 and Jersey, and the Struts REST
> plugin. But none of them get me 100% to where I want to be. I'm
> getting to a point where I need to make a decision. Hopefully, whatever
> decision I make won't be irreversible if it turns out not to work out.
>

OK. Which ever framework gets you most of the way there with the least
amount of fuss and risk would be best IMHO.

Your feedback/ideas will definitely make for an improved final
distribution of Jersey and hopefully when that is reached you can get
much closer to that 100% than is currently possible today :-)

Paul.

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