On 15/07/2011 22:38, Stephen Munro wrote: > No, that wasn't the way it was pitched. The video was from springsource and > a Mark Thomas was discussing the feature in question ( > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSPo8k6DbTs&feature=related).
Mark is a Tomcat committer. He did say that > this feature was good for ensuring nothing was enabled accidentally through > web-fragments and that the log feature would help sanity check the web-app > configuration. That is very true. However, he did state it was a good way for improving performance. Not all optimisations are aimed at production. This was purely out of my own curiosity and I've not looked > into Tomcat much and it seemed (to me at least) worth asking about. As you > seemed to have implied in your comment, unless the app is rebooted on a > regular basis, it may not be worth dumping the in memory copy to a generated > web.xml file. Indeed. p > On 15 July 2011 22:28, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > >> On 15/07/2011 22:25, Stephen Munro wrote: >>> Yeah, you may be right out it's usefulness, but on the video I watched, >> it >>> was being pitched as a performance boost if you had a massive web app >> (with >>> annotations and web-fragments). So the use case would be, develop the app >>> with annotations enabled and in production, switch them off and use the >>> master (generated) web.xml, that's what my understanding of it was. So, >> with >>> that in mind, I'd have thought a web.xml file would have been created and >>> that could be checked into version control without the user having to do >>> anything. >> >> Does the video describe an app which is rebooted frequently in production? >> >> >> p >> >> >>> This may not be what had been envisioned for it's primary use, it just >>> struck me as a nice feature to have. >>> >>> On 15 July 2011 22:18, Jesse Farinacci <jie...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Stephen Munro >>>> <stephen.ross.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Thanks for the quick reply! I've got it working, so thanks. I'm a >> little >>>>> curious why the web-app structure is dumped directly to the logs rather >>>> than >>>>> have it written to a .xml for convenience say...web-generated.xml? >>>> >>>> Great! The configuration option name has "log" right in it. I wouldn't >>>> expect it to do anything other than log the effective web.xml. Having >>>> this effective web.xml output to a special file seems of limited >>>> value, you can simply copy and paste in the rare event that you >>>> actually require it. >>>> >>>> -Jesse >>>> >>>> -- >>>> There are 10 types of people in this world, those >>>> that can read binary and those that can not. >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
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