November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 29m
English
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Packaging the JAX-RS applications with web.xml and an Application subclass
Sometimes, you may want to use both Application and web.xml for your JAX-RS application. This deployment model will be the best fit for the following scenarios, where you will use web.xml:
- To configure security for the application
- To specify some context parameters for the application
- To configure some container-specific parameters for the application
Depending on the capabilities of the target server, configuration entries in web.xml vary. This will be explained in the following sections.