Paul, Would you be kind enough to let me check with a few of our product teams inside of IBM? I *think* this may give us some heartache b/c we'll need to deploy on the current version. So I definitely don't want to vote yes or no without having all the facts.
Thanks, -Mark W. From: John Hjelmstad <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 05/12/2010 03:53 PM Subject: Re: upgrade to servlet-api 2.5 +1 from here. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Paul Lindner <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm going ahead with this change > > * web.xml has already had servlet-2.5 markup for a long time... > * I forgot that I raised this issue long ago and no one complained. > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Paul Lindner <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I'd like to move us to servlet-api 2.5 > > > > pros: > > * Allows easier web.xml configuration for various url patterns. > > * Allows for use of getContextPath() to ease configuration hassles > > > > cons: > > * People can't deploy source builds directly to tomcat 5.5 or older > > containers. > > > > To make this easy I'll wrap calls to getContextPath() into it's own class > > that can be customized with hard coded or configured value. > > > > >
