I'm +1 on backport HTTP/2 support to tomcat 8. I think this should fit into a).
Reasons: SPDY support has been supported until tomcat 8.0.22, and HTTP/2 is based on SPDY, so there should be no problem at Java language level. Given that: 1. tomcat 8 has already dropped SPDY support 2. there are more and more web application who is willing to run on HTTP/2 3. tomcat 9 will not be release unless Servlet 4.0 is finalized. I think we should support HTTP/2 on tomcat 8. If the Java language level IS a problem, I propose another option: tomcat 8 WITH HTTP/2 requires to run on JAVA 8. tomcat 8 WITHOUT HTTP/2 requires to run on JAVA 7. This is similar to tomcat 7 + web socket support. Thanks, Huxing ------------------------------------------------------------------ From:Rémy Maucherat <r...@apache.org> Time:2016 Feb 25 (Thu) 21:52 To:Tomcat Developers List <dev@tomcat.apache.org> Subject:Tomcat 8.next Hi, This has been hinted at in the past, but is not being discussed anymore. Possible options: a) Release a new 8.x branch that would include the connectors from 9 to support HTTP/2 [OpenSSL now allows realistic support without having to wait for Java 9], and thus would remove a few legacy items. b) A more radical option is to use 9 as 8.x but remove the Servlet API changes. This would force Java 8 and many incompatible changes. c) Give up on 8.x and instead release 9 as beta, then stable, with an explicit exception about the Servlet 4 API additions being "preview" until further notice. That's probably the solution which involves the least effort by far. d) Nothing. No 8.x release. 9 will be released sometimes in 2017 when Servlet 4 is released. The main issue is that there's no HTTP/2 support until then. The longer we wait, the more a major release will conflict with the "intuitive" 9 release cycle in 2017. Comments ? Rémy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
