Remy Maucherat wrote:
Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
Remy Maucherat wrote:
Yes, this is hard to compare to httpd, as in the case of Tomcat,
there is precise specification which defines a portable web
application packaging. I see the latest changes have all aimed at
breaking portability, and I don't like that at all.
I don't subscribe to this point of view, basically, if that was the
case, we wouldn't have META-INF/context.xml as a feature either (as
just one example).
Portability is not something that is enforced by Tomcat, but by the
spec. So if a user writes a portable webapp on weblogic, then the
spec (and tomcat) make that webapp being able to run on Tomcat. and
the other way around. However, pretty much every single servlet
engine, Tomcat included, does add additional features, useful to the
users for the frameworks.
If Tomcat didn't have any custom features, then it wouldn't be half
as popular as it is today.
This is history rewriting. Actually, people used it (in that order)
because of:
- it was a component of the RI, which meant not too many spec breaking
features, and that an app that ran on Tomcat was likely to run on the
production server (which was rarely Tomcat)
- the Apache brand
- relatively small and light
Writing a portable webapp, is doable, and essentially has nothing to
do with the optional feature set in Tomcat. If you want a portable
webapp, simply don't use the non portable features in Tomcat.
It's another strategy: add as many of the features that a few users
ask for, regardless of what the specification. This is what many
commercial appservers often do, basically. It's quite amazing you
cannot seem to accept that I do not like this policy.
I totally accept that you dont like the policy, but it doesn't justify
vetos. and that has been one of the core of the issues.
the one time it would fly for a veto would be when, a) others feel the
same, b) no one likes the feature
Filip
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