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Re: JSR311: Java mime type

From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 08:30:41 -0400

On May 22, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
> Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> On May 22, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>> I didn't see any Java mime types registered with Iana. Maybe this
>>> is something we should think about, define in JAX-RS, and register
>>> with Iana?
>> Yes, JAX-RS would be a reasonable place to specify any such media
>> type declarations.
>>> First thoughts are something like:
>>>
>>> application/*+java;version=x
>>>
>> For Java source, classes, jars, wars, web start stuff?
>> Does it make sense for individual classes?
>
> My though would be for serialized objects. I know there is one
> defined somewhere in Java SE javadocs:
>
> application/x-java-serialized-object
>
> But, I was hoping for the *+ and version property as well (and have
> it registered with IANA.
>
Makes sense.

> I guess we could define a application/war, application/ear,
> application/jar, etc... too
>
Might be useful for code-on-demand usage.

Marc.