"Handle your tools without mittens; remember that the cat in gloves catches no mice[.]"
Ben Franklin - The Way to Wealth (1758) http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/franklin.htm Am Samstag, den 04.08.2007, 19:28 -0400 schrieb Benson Margulies: > Speaking as a person with an undying hatred of (well, a mild annoyance > with) the containers in general, or at least Tomcat in particular, I'd > appeal for a balanced approach to this. It is vastly easier to debug a > service using the embedded Jetty endpoint. You just run from Eclipse (or > whatever) and there you are. No titanous struggle to get your stuff into > the WEB-INF directory, no fighting with multiple incompatible debugging > disciplines. And if your goal is a service tucked into some other > application structure, well, there you are. > > I agree that, sooner or later, most services will have to be > transplanted into a container, but this is a process so annoying as to > motivate the programmer to defer it to the last possible moment. Get all > the service-side code working, and \then/, ahem, go to WAR with it. >
