[weld-dev] registering the Weld Servlet listener in a web.xml fragment or TLD

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

+1, at least makes life easier for folks who are on 3.0 already.

JIRA it.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of making the developer add the Weld Servle listener in their
> web.xml when using weld-servlet, might we consider registering it for them
> automatically but including it in a web.xml fragment or TLD that's bundled
> in weld-servlet.jar? The benefit of using the TLD is that it would work in
> pre-Servlet 3.0 environments.
>
> META-INF/web-fragment.xml
> <web-fragment xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-fragment_3_0.xsd"
>     version="3.0">
>    <listener>
>
>  <listener-class>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</listener-class>
>    </listener>
> </web-fragment>
>
> META-INF/weld.tld
> <taglib xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
>     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>     xsi:schemaLocation="
>        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
>        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd"
>     version="2.0">
>     <description>
>        An empty tag library that registers a listener to bootstrap Weld in
> a Servlet container.
>     </description>
>     <tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
>     <short-name>w</short-name>
>     <uri>http://jboss.org/weld</uri>
>
>     <!--
>        This ServletContextListener initializes the runtime environment of
> the CDI
>        Reference Implementation (Weld) when a web application including it
> is
>        initialized by the container.
>     -->
>     <listener>
>
> <listener-class>org.jboss.weld.environment.servlet.Listener</listener-class>
>     </listener>
> </taglib>
>
> Btw, we are already including other automatic configurations, such as a JSF
> phase listener and view handler (META-INF/faces-config.xml).
>
> Worthy of a JIRA?
>
> -Dan
>
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