On 28/09/17 06:56, Martin Grigorov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Huxing Zhang <huxing....@alibaba-inc.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> +1 to remove the preview packages.
>>
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>> Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>
>> 2017 Sep 28 (Thu) 03:08
>> Tomcat Developers List <dev@tomcat.apache.org>
>> [PROPOSAL] Deprecate and eventually remove the o.a.c.servlet4preview
>> package in 8.5.x
>>
>>
>> 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 The preview is not complete and may be out of date in places.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?
>>
> 
> We use the preview in Apache Wicket:
> https://github.com/apache/wicket/blob/77d8bf32d2063ac0174fc383da81ac2d6bcc482b/wicket-experimental/wicket-http2/wicket-http2-tomcat/src/main/java/org/apache/wicket/http2/markup/head/Tomcat85PushBuilder.java#L40
> 
> But we can rework it!

Great to know that someone is using it.

It looks like reworking that could be as simple as switching to the
concrete implementation (ApplicationPushBuilder) rather than the preview
interface.

Mark

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