[undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanismFactory

[Anil Saldhana]

On 12/13/2013 10:21 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 12/13/2013 09:51 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>> I am mainly viewing this from DeploymentInfo API aesthetics/usability
>> perspective.
> No point in continuing then, as aesthetics is completely subjective by
> definition, and thus all answers are equally "right" or "wrong";
> debating the finer points of API aesthetics is perhaps an amusing
> diversion but it is also a major time consumer.
>
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality
>
Sure - if Undertow is a project that caters to a small set of 
integrators and expected to have
a very short shelf life, then yes, the discussion is pointless.  But ... 
as Tomcat and Jetty have shown,
Java based web containers have a long shelf life.  API design becomes 
paramount. :)