Re: [Resteasy-developers] Seam and RESTEasy integration

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

Christian Bauer wrote:
> On Jul 14, 2008, at 14:47 , Bill Burke wrote:
> 
>> The Dispatcher is driven off of UriInfo.  So, you need to build your  
>> own since it is specific to Seam.  Look in HttpServletDispatcher to  
>> see how it builds it, its pretty easy and the methods are already  
>> there.
> 
> OK, I'll try that.
> 
>> FYI, you should be working off of trunk as we've have recently  
>> changed packaged names (to org.jboss.resteasy) and are refactoring  
>> continuously.  You will also want to take advantage of our  
>> interceptor model when we get it in.
> 
> Well let's keep integration for releases, we can't refactor every day  
> to follow your nightly snapshots. Just open a JIRA issue on Seam when  
> you have a new release and you think that the integration needs to be  
> updated.
> 
> We most likely won't need your interceptors and I'm not sure you  
> should even have them in RESTEasy. KISS and if people want a resource  
> programming model that supports interception they should use Seam (or  
> EJB3, or Spring, or whatever other container).
> 

I originally thought this myself, but there are a decent amount of use 
cases that require them.

I'm doing asynch stuff as well as Cache-Control annotations and 
server-side caching.  All of which require interception at certain (and 
different) points of request processing that Seam can't provide for me.

Asynch requires interception before request unmarshalling. Server-side 
caching requires interception before and after marshalling requests. 
Cache-Control annotations require knowledge of the HTTP method being 
invoked.  Also, users may want to re-use JAX-RS annotations within their 
interceptors, for instance, for their own security protocol.



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