Date: 2004-08-14T03:03:00 Editor: TedHusted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wiki: Apache Struts Wiki Page: StrutsRelease122 URL: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsRelease122
Suggest Tomcat 4.1.30 as the formal test container Change Log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ '''??? Are the following flavours enough/appropriate ???''' - (thusted: Ideally, we should be testing against the reference implementation for each supported platforms (Java 2.2 and Java 2.3), and rely on the the community to provide testing against whatever else they use. Since Tomcat is not the reference application anymore, I think inertia is the only reason we still use it for testing. Perhaps Craig could clarify what the appropriate RIs for Java 2.2 and 2.3 now are.) + (thusted: Ideally, we should be testing against the reference implementation for each supported platforms (Java 2.2 and Java 2.3), and rely on the the community to provide testing against whatever else they use. Since Tomcat is not the reference application anymore, I think inertia is the only reason we still use it for testing. Perhaps Craig could clarify what the appropriate RIs for Java 2.2 and 2.3 now are. + Of course, testing against other containers would be great, but, realistically, we just don't have the committer resources to do more than test against the latest RIs.) (craigmcc: Actually, Tomcat never has been the official RI for Servlet or JSP ... that role has always been the J2EE Reference Implementation, now known as the @@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ so we clearly need to continue testing on it. Anything additional is likely going to need to be provided by the community.) -Of course, testing against other containers would be great, but, realistically, we just don't have the committer resources to do more than test against the latest RIs.) + (thusted: If the rationale is that Tomcat is likely hosting the largest number of Struts apps, then, for the purposes of this checklist, let's cite the Tomcat version of Tomcat most likely to be used, which would be Tomcat 4.1.30, or later. Of course, I'd agree volunteers should also be testing against Tomcat 5, Tomcat 3, Resin, Jetty, JBoss, Websphere, et al, but it's very important that we keep the formal release process manageable, lest there be no releases.) [[BR]] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
