Mark, On 8/1/2011 2:58 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 01/08/2011 19:32, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Mark, >> >> On 8/1/2011 12:05 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 01/08/2011 16:45, Christopher Schultz wrote: >>>> Mark, >>>> >>>> On 7/26/2011 1:30 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >>>>> The Servlet EG is starting to discuss changes to the Servlet >>>>> API for 3.1. It would be useful if the option existed to >>>>> implement some of these changes in Tomcat trunk. The benefits >>>>> of this are: - we can see how feasible the API changes are to >>>>> implement - users can try out the new APIs (assuming we do a >>>>> Tomcat 8 alpha release) >>>> >>>> How much of this stuff could reasonably be built-into Tomcat 7 >>>> without breaking anything? >>> >>> None. The TCK will fail as soon as any changes are made to the >>> API. >> >> Ooh, so until the TCK is updated to tolerate Servlet 3.1, we will be >> unable to run TCK tests against trunk. That seems ... non-ideal. > > We won't get the TCK until after the spec has gone final. As an EG > member I should have access to it before then but I am new to this so > we'll have to wait and see.
I guess what I meant was that we wouldn't even be able to run Servlet 3.0 TCK against our TC8 trunk because it would always fail. That means not being able to test the trunk against anything but our own unit tests for quite a while, which is unfortunate. So, the TCK will bomb if we implement extra methods in, say, HttpServletRequest? Since containers are supposed to adjust behavior depending upon the version string used in the deployment descriptor, I had hoped that the TCK would be sensitive to that kind of thing. -chris
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