Better to have one distribution.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Manoj Kumara <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On Carbon 4.x.x era to support Web profiles we have implemented a
> ServerListener on top of Carbonized Tomcat. Further when introducing Tomcat
> based features to Carbon servers we had to do lot of work in order to get
> the support and this added overhead on maintaining as well.
>
> On future releases we are planing to use vanilla Tomcat servers with added
> extensions to support additional features required by Carbon servers (ex:
> SSO, Class loading, analytics etc.) to simplify the internals and to be
> align with the latest Tomcat releases.
>
> I'm currently working on $Subject task and when it comes to Web Profile
> support we can choose few approaches as I can see,
>
>    1. Include TomEE based libs on Tomcat server to get the WebProfile
>    support (IMO approach is not suitable as that is what TomEE project is
>    trying to address the overhead of adding customized features on top of
>    Tomcat)
>    2. Use TomEE Jax-RS distribution instead of Tomcat such that with
>    single distribution we'll have features of both Tomcat and TomEE
>    3. Create two flavours of WSO2 AS 6.0.0 one with Tomcat and another
>    with TomEE Jax-RS. So depending on the requirement customers can choose
>    which distribution to use.
>
> As per my understanding I prefer the 3nd approach as that way use can
> choose which variance he want depending on the requirements.
>
> Appreciate your feedback on this.
>
> Regards,
> Manoj
>
>
>


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