[jboss-as7-dev] [AS7-5869] Registering servlets directly off the root context

[David Bosschaert]

Hi all,

I have been looking at making our OSGi HttpService implementation 
compliant with the specification [1] (in the context of [2]). One of the 
things that this spec prescribes is the ability to register servlets 
with an alias directly off the root of the web server. So for example 
you would call
   HttpService.registerService("/svlt", myServlet, null)
in this case the servlet would have to appear at http://localhost:8080/svlt

Previously our HttpService implementation would put the servlet on 
http://localhost:8080/httpservice/svlt instead, but this is not 
compliant with the spec.

Would there be any issues with such a change? For example, are there 
certain contexts that users should be prevented from registering at? Or 
is there a security impact?

I have made this change in the following pull request 
https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/3448

Cheers,

David

[1] http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release5
[2] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5869