On 25/05/2012 09:22, Jan Bartel wrote:
> Rajiv,
>
> On 24 May 2012 23:59, Rajiv Mordani <rajiv.mordani_at_oracle.com> wrote:
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>> The application would explicitly use an annotation in the code - so the
>> behavior will be expected by the application by the fact that it used the
>> particular annotation.
>
> Not necessarily. As per http://java.net/jira/browse/SERVLET_SPEC-36, a
> servlet 3.0 container is required to look for
> ServletContextInitializers inside WEB-INF/lib jars. If an application
> uses a jar that happens to have one of these then when the app is
> deployed on a 2.5 compliant container it may have different and
> unexpected behaviour on a servlet 3.0 container. Unless a user sees
> the source of all the jars in WEB-INF/lib there's no way for them to
> know that such annotations are present.
Ping.
I have yet to see a response to this particular point.
And the same point applies to all the other new 3.0 annotations if
meta-data complete is not specified.
I understand why the specification is written the way it is but the
above is one of the less pleasant side-effects. Is this really the way
we want to go?
Mark