On 27/09/17 20:45, Rainer Jung wrote:
> Am 27.09.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Mark Thomas:
>> All,
>>
>> I'd like to propose removing this for the following reasons:
>>
>> 1. Now the Servlet 4.0 spec is final, users can use Tomcat 9 for Servlet
>> 4.0 features.
>>
>> 2. The preview is not complete and may be out of date in places.
>>
>> 3. I'm not aware of any user feedback so usage seems to be very low.
>>
>> My proposal is to deprecate it now with the intention to remove it after
>> a year.
>>
>> As an alternative is deprecate it now with the intention to remove it 1
>> year after the first stable 9.0.x release.
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments? Questions?
> 
> I'm OK either way, just mentioning, that in our examples we have an
> HTTP/2 server push example that AFAIK uses o.a.c.servlet4preview. So i
> wonder whether making use of HTTP/2 support in 8.5 profits much of the
> package or not and if so, whether there's another way to keep those parts.

I'm pretty sure we could cast to an internal class to keep that working
- and I think that we should do that.

The preview API was intended as a convenience to ease migration since
moving to 9.0.x would just require an import change.

Mark

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