While we still have time to deprecate stuff, I thought I'd raise this
issue.
There are three redundant ways to bootstrap Cayenne in a web
application. I suggest that we reduce the number of default
configuration choices. Currently we have:
1. WebApplicationContextFilter (Servlet spec 2.3+, session
DataContext, thread DataContext)
2. WebApplicationContextListener (Servlet spec 2.3+, session
DataContext)
3. WebApplicationContextProvider (Servlet spec 2.4+, session
DataContext, thread DataContext)
For a novice user this creates unneeded confusion as to what is the
difference between them. And for a power user each one of the choices
is trivial to write from scratch.
So maybe just keep the (1) - the filter, and move the rest to Wiki as
possible custom alternatives (with deprecation of course). Filter
seems like the best choice to keep as it works with older spec and
does allow mapping by path.
What do you think?
Andrus
