[jetty-dev] Support for webapps without web.xml for servlet-2.5 ?

[Hugues Malphettes <hmalphettes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

The esteemed springsource team was testing jetty-osgi with a webapp that just contain some static files and no web.xml descriptor;

They noted that this use-case was not supported: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=331045

After some minor modifications on jetty-osgi, the webapp is in fact deployed but no request is ever handled by it (*).

Thomas B and I looked for this type of webapp in the spec and our conclusion is that it is not officially supported with servlet-2.5.

It looks like tomcat and other containers do support it though.

Is this something we would like to support on jetty-7 ?

Cheers,

Hugues

(*) the internal objects for the webapp are created: The WebAppContext is present and it has a ServletHandler.

A request against the webapp goes through org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandle#doScope

But _servletMappings, _servletNameMap, _servletPathMap are null or empty and the request is never processed.

The expected behavior would be to load the webdefault.xml and configure the DefaultServlet if no web.xml is present.