2016-01-04 17:14 GMT+01:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > Given that the Tomcat code doesn't contain any classes that implement > InstanceListener is looks to be unused internally. I'm wondering if > anyone else is using it. If not, there is a chunk of code we could > remove including a bunch of (admittedly simple/fast) calls made on every > request. > > Could we deprecate this in 8.0.x and remove it in 9.0.x? > > Tomcat had these hooks for integration in enterprise environments (but it wasn't done very well and was incomplete). I tried to improve that with simpler hooks (the instance manager and the thread listener). OTOH, as was said previously, this one is used to do RunAs most likely [it needs to set the proper security context when the servlet is invoked], so since someone from TomEE is there to comment, what's the plan to do this feature without it ?
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