Experts of the Servlets,
When Glassfish unpacks a war file and encounters an empty directory
entry, it ignores the entry.
When Jetty unpacks the same war file, it creates a directory for the
entry in the destination path.
This leads to inconsistent behavior for web applications calling
ServletContext.getResourcePaths("/WEB-INF/") when "WEB-INF/classes/"
is an empty entry in the war file.
For me, this inconsistency creates noise when testing the
ResourceLoader implementations of GlassFish and Jetty, since the test
doesn't really know what to expect.
I can always work around it by adding files to the directory
(WEB-INF/classes/dontdelete.txt), but that's a pretty ugly hack.
Can the Expert Group please clarify the correct behavior for empty
directory entries, and I will follow up with a bug report and patches
to either Glassfish/Tomcat or Jetty.
(I know this is a minor detail, but that's what the world is made of :-)
Thanks,
Eirik.