Ron Sigal

Hey @spericas, Thank you for the careful response. I follow you most of the way. The point at which I get stuck is, given web.xml ``` 1 5 6 org.example.MyApplication...

re: "web.xml is not used to configure anything directly in Jakarta REST" I'm not following. In the absence of `@ApplicationPath`, aren't we, in effect, using <servlet-mapping> to configure a JAX-RS...

Here's my rewrite of the section, somewhat poorly translated from asciidoc: [[servlet]] ==== Servlet A JAX-RS application is packaged as a Web application in a `.war` file. The application classes...

One last thing. @andymc12 suggested renaming the init param "javax.ws.rs.Application" to "javax.ws.rs.core.Application", maybe starting by deprecating "javax.ws.rs.Application".

Ok, so, basically, the text makes logical sense as it stands, and my confusion came from a misunderstanding. That *suggests*, but doesn't prove, that there might be room for some...

>I suppose we could have said that if the user provides such a web.xml anyway, we should use the pattern to override the annotation That makes sense to me. Anyone...

With @chkal's excellent catch, I agree. +1.

Does anyone have a sense of what it means that https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7538 has remained a Proposed Standard for over five years? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2026/ "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3" says that,...

>would be fine with adding it, even if the RFC isn't final (yet). That seems reasonable to me. I wonder if anyone has any connections at IETF that could shed...

I reached out at Red Hat about this and got an interesting response: >I don't think any part of HTTP has made it to 'Internet Standard', only 'Proposed Standard'. ......