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As I have often said, in the long run the user should not care if they
are using jetty or tomcat and it was a mistake for us to expose
implementation detail as we have.
I have always preferred the web tier to be just called "web"
and then in future the developers will have the option to change
implementations. Just as we may change the implementation of GBeans,
CORBA, EJB, JMS or any other component.
I would say that perhaps the installer should not even offer the option
unless it is in some advanced mode. Less is more when it comes
to configuration options.
If at a later time we have a debate about technical advantages and
support issues and decide that tomcat is a better default - then that
can be changed in a future release (or we can continue to work hard to
improve Jetty to meet the requirements of the geronimo community).
regards
Jeff Genender wrote:
This is obviously a hot topic and I hope that as a Geronimo PMC and user
community we are not forced to have to show preference of one over the
other. There is obviously some personal preferences on both sides and
we are a great open source project because we do not have to get behind
one *or* the other. We can get behind them both.
May I ask why the installer/wizard cannot have a page called "Choose
Your Web Container" and have an option for Jetty and Tomcat, but neither
selected? Does there need to be a default? Can we just let the end
user choose?
IMHO, I don't think we should provide a preference for one over the
other. I really like both. I think we should give the user the choice
without hinting a preference.
Thoughts and comments?
Jeff
