Configure <error-page> programmatically in Servlet 3.0

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Web.xml can be programmatically created using Servlet 3.0. But features like , < session-timeout> still needs to be configured in a web.xml.Can you provide a way to programmatically create these as well? Especially, error-page configuration.

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Reported by shijas

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mode said:
While we did provide programmatic APIs for adding servlets, filters and listeners, we have not exposed a full API for processing every element in the descriptor via APIs. Note that the programmatic APIs are not a complete replacement for the descriptor. It still makes sense to specify certain aspects via descriptors - just like in the case of annotations.

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arjan_t said:
Ideally, every element (with some exceptions) would be settable in 3 ways, namely via:

• The traditional descriptor
• An annotation
• A high level programmatic API

Note that JSF 2.2 introduced a method that's between the descriptor and the programmatic API: a call-back in which the descriptor is exposed as a DOM tree and can be programmatically manipulated. See http://arjan-tijms.omnifaces.org/p/jsf-22.html#533 You could call this a low level programmatic API.

It might make sense to adopt the JSF 2.2 method for web.xml.

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This issue was imported from java.net JIRA SERVLET_SPEC-50

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• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/servlet-spec/issues/50
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @shingwaichan