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[Jersey] Re: New feature? customizable resource/method locators

From: Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:00:47 -0700

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Pavel Bucek <pavel.bucek_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello Jose,
>
> is there any major demand/strong usecase behind this? I don't think we would
> like to encourage developers to write code which does not comply with JAX-RS
> spec and needs some custom proprietary "collision resolver".. maybe if you
> can describe some problem which is solvable with this ResourceComparator and
> does not have standard solution, we might consider adding it. Actually if it
> manifests to be major issue, it might be considered as part of some future
> JAX-RS spec update (but I kind of doubt that in this case)..

I agree -- it should be possible to make more dynamic systems co-exist
by building alternative mechanisms on standard Servlet API. Not
everything has to be going through JAX-RS even on same JVM and host.

-+ Tatu +-