On Aug 25, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:55 PM, David Jencks wrote:
So, I realize there is a bit of weakness in my idea, namely a lot of
web apps don't need a plan: so in my rosy future, there would need to
be a "default web container" that these would get pushed to. So, how
about this idea:
a "fake" common schema that includes the common elements and a single
[virtual-]host element
a jetty schema that is the same except allowing multiple virtual-host
elements
a tomcat schema that is the same but includes the additional tomcat
specific elements.
The tomcat and jetty builders can both change the common namespace to
their own namespace and deploy as if it is their own.
This takes care of 100% of the cases you mentioned :-) However, it
doesn't take care of the <cross-context/> element which can be put in
the tomcat config without making it undeployable on jetty. I'll
actually weaken my case a bit by pointing out that the tomcat
specific gbeans relating to the tomcat-realm and valve-chain should
probably come from tomcat specific xml in the tomcat schema rather
than plain gbean definitions.
Could you live with this proposal?
Are you proposing that we support 3 configuration file formats:
geronimo-web.xml, geronimo-jetty.xml, and geronimo-tomcat.xml?
yes. Also, a valid geronimo-web document is a valid geronimo-jetty or
geronimo-tomcat document after changng the namespace.
david jencks
-dain
