I have some thoughts that I wanted to post to the dev list.
Here they are:
The RP will need to choose between lifecylces, possibly just selecting which
existing cxf
resourceProvider to choose, based upon annotation. The annotations may be
found in the
class resource info object, obtainable from the JAXRSService. Look up the
EJB annotations
and find out which EJB-lifecycle this class is subscribing to, then call the
appropriate
cxf RP. We will need to know which cxf RP, at the time of SF.setRP(EJB_RP);
"EJB_RP" will call Singleton- or per-request- RP's, or some other, based on
@'s.
Exceptions: if thrown, what does cxf normally do with it? Does this vary
between
exceptions. If cxf always passes it off to the server container,
then
that is just fine. Need to get a list of all possible exceptions
throwable and map them to exception responses, via
customExMapper?
will we need to have the exceptionMapper called automatically,
so that
the user doesn't have to remember to set it, just to have cxf do
what user should take for grantd?
What else do ejb annotation's do, besides dictate lifecycle? Does cxf
app-lifecycle
function handle, or need to handle any of these functions? Does java
normally
handle them? Does a server typically handle any of them?
ClassScanner idea:
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Ok, so in terms of lifecycle management, when an ejb class is declared as a
root
resource, it will need to be handled by a given resourceProvider. This will
handle the various lifecycles that EJB's provide. When the setResourceClass
is
called on an ejb-annotated root resource, cxf should have a mechanism in
place
to recognize the ejb annotation, as-such, by looking it up in a list, and
force cxf to use the custom resource provider. The annotations are part of
the
information that goes into the classResourceInfo object that resides with
the
JAXRSServiceFactory. There may be some way to listen for the creation of the
classResourceInfo object, and then use it, at that time, to decide whether
the
customResourceProvider should be the default.
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Thank you.
Ryan
