Hi Sean,
On May 31, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Sean Schofield wrote:
IMO there are two issues here:
1.) What is required to run MyFaces (in general - not specifically our
examples bundle) on the various Tomcat versions?
2.) How to make the examples work on the various deployments.
Agreed, we need two docs. The 'getting-started' doc appears addresses
point 2 (except for tomcat 4.x and I'll address that) and we need an
additional one that documents point 1.
They are related but slightly different questions. It seems like the
jsp-2.0.jar is the determining factor (although I thought there was
another.) It would be nice to have a summary of the various tomcat
versions (based on your findings above) that describe what jars need
to be added or removed (to a standard Tomcat distro) for a generic
MyFaces app to work.
Agreed, not sure why commons-el.jar was an issue but at one point it
was (I think there was a conflict between the tomcat5.5.x el and the
commons-el). Anyway it seems that we are down to the jsp-2.0.jar file
being the problem for tomcat4.x.
In short;
4.x - needs the jsp-2.0.jar file to work
5.x - works out of the box (fresh tomcat 5.x install and our
downloaded examples)
We should remove the discussion of the commons-el.jar from the docs
as it is no longer a problem for 5.0.x or 5.5.x.
You can use the simple examples as a test case
in determining this but the write up should be focused on any
application. That's the question we seem to get more than anything.
("I can't get my hello world working on Tomcat version such and such')
Agreed, i'll make a table in the doc I write up for point 1 above.
As for the examples, my opinion on that would depend on the answer to
the following question. Do the current examples work on an
out-of-the-box distro for Tomcat 5 and Tomcat 5.5? (I believe they
work on 5.0 b/c that is what I use.) If they work on both of these
versions I would say that yes we can ignore special build
configuration options for the examples since most are running at least
5.0.
I'll write up stuff for point 2 that addresses 'pre 5.x' tomcat.
TTFN,
-bd-
