I've been hearing "appserver", but would the "Java EE Umbrella Spec" be enough to bring this behavior to servlet containers? The last thing we want is to create another thing that appservers provide, that servlet containers do not. We still need ProjectStage to make it into the Servlet spec, explicitly, in order to bridge that gap, right? Is that an accurate assumption?

My position on this is that the whole idea of using a "servlet container" needs to go away. We need a more robust foundation for what we deem "minimal" in the Java EE world so that we can inherit things such as project stages. That's why I believe that the web profile (or perhaps even an even lighter profile) needs to be the foundation. A servlet container isn't anything in Java EE. It's not defined. It is just an implementation of a couple of specs which is not defined as a group anywhere in the Java EE platform. The web profile is that grouping (well, it's damn close to what servlet containers are).

So the question really needs to be, do project stages apply to all profiles? And I think the answer is yes, it should be possible to set the stage at the container level of whatever hosts your profile.

-Dan

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