Re: [Resteasy-developers] Spring eye for the RESTEasy guy - part 1

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

I was thinking about your post here as well as looking at your blog that 
described various Spring+JAX-RS integration.

I think it would be interesting to expand on your ideas.  Want to help?

I was thinking first step on developing a set of classes that allowed 
you to define a set of JAX-RS Resources and Providers.  Basically what 
CXF allows you to do and group providers, resources, and configuration 
options into individual sets.

i.e.

* A set of providers that apply to a specific set of resources.
* A set of providers that apply to only one resource (allows you to 
override marshalling per resource.
* A set of config that applies to a provider and/or a resource
* Etc...

Creating the classes for this is pretty easy and straightforward.  What 
I don't know how to do is define my own XML namespace/schema and plug it 
into Spring (or Seam for that matter as I know they have something similar).

As a first step, would you be interested in defining/creating that 
integration?  Then we can look at refactoring Resteasy to provide that 
kind of fine-grain scoping.

Bill Burke wrote:
> 
> Solomon Duskis wrote:
>> Re ResourceExposingService - I guess it was a bad name... I basically 
>> meant ResteasyRegistration.  I do hope this makes it into the RESTEasy core.
>>
>> Re IoC container dependency: What I really want is a way to use the 
>> Spring MVC framework right along side JAX-RS/RESTEasy.  It will allow me 
>> to configure which requests go to Spring MVC Controllers/Struts 
>> Actions/JAX-RS Resources and how to render Views/Producers with 
>> Velocity/Freemarker/Tiles/JSP.  In order to get that to work properly, 
>> I'll need to store the Registry et al in the Spring Application context 
>> instead of the ServletContext.
>>
> 
> Why do you need access to the Registry?  And if you really do, can't it 
> be manually registered?
> 
>> Perhaps I'll just vet some ideas in this group as to how I could use 
>> RESTEasy towards my ends.  The means I use to achieve my ends may may be 
>> helpful for other MVC and IoC integrations such as Struts2/Guice... I 
>> know RESTEasy already works with Seam ;).
>>
> 
> Yes, please brainstorm.  I'm Spring ignorant beyond basic IoC so any 
> insight would be invaluable.
> 
> 

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