On Jun 18, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>> A use case you might not have considered is generating URI
>>> templates from JAX-RS classes. Keeping the JAX-RS templates a
>>> strict subset of the URI templates draft makes this relatively
>>> straightforward. Assuming URI templates catch on (which I think
>>> they will) this seems useful.
>
> I don't think this makes sense. As you already know, URI templates
> cannot be used by JAX-RS as they were not written to match incoming
> requests. They are templates, not expression matchers.
>
> Unless another standard comes out, we will be forced to define our
> own pattern matching syntax.
>
The subset we are using now seems to be working out fine.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.