On 02/04/2020 15:02, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 6:13 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org
> <mailto:ma...@apache.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 26/03/2020 16:47, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>     > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 10:37 AM Rémy Maucherat <r...@apache.org
>     <mailto:r...@apache.org>
>     > <mailto:r...@apache.org <mailto:r...@apache.org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     - Remove the use of system properties to control configuration
>     >     wherever possible.
>     >     I still don't see the point for quite a few of them. For others
>     >     however, using sys props was a mistake, example the facade
>     >     recycling. Also, the digester can now pull from system and env
>     >     properties, giving full flexibility. Also also, this is a
>     handy way
>     >     to do things in cloud. I think we should target the ones which
>     >     should make sense.
>     >
>     >
>     > I think I'm done with that area for now as I'm a bit skeptical about
>     > this for JULI, EL, JSP and Websockets. Any reasonable candidates for
>     > removal left ?
> 
> 
> Ok, so all are now done except:

Nice.

>     Digester
>      - Not sure. Likely to be tricky
> 
>     Clustering
>      - org.apache.catalina.tribes.dns_lookups
>        Any DNS names are going to *have* to be resolved at some point for
>        the cluster to work. I'd probably remove this and let the user
>        specify DNS name or IP address as they wish.
> 
> This one. I'd remove it outright.

I agree. Deprecate it in 10, back-port and then remove it in 10.

I can do this next as I have just finished going through the open PRs.

>     EL
>      - Can't do anything about these without spec changes
> 
>     Jasper
>      - Could all move to o.a.jasper.Options
> 
>     Security
>      - ALLOW_BACKSLASH
>        Remove it. It is just wrong. If we must keep it, move it to the
>        Connector.
>      - ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH
>        I plan to replace this with a Connector option
> 
>     Spec
>      - STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE
>        Is a useful short-cut
> 
> 
> I would prefer keeping it (useful shortcut indeed), even though it might
> be technically feasible to remove it.

It looks like this could be made per web application if we wanted.
Whether there is a need to do that (keeping the system property as the
default) is TBD. I don't recall any requests to do that so maybe wiat
until we get one.

>      - Move the remaining ones to the Context or related object where
>        possible (I haven't checked how easy that would be)
> 
>     Sessions
>      - Move to the Manager or related object where possible (I haven't
>        checked how easy that would be)
> 
>     JULI
>      - Look tricky to remove any of these.
> 
>     JAR Scanning
>      - Leave as is
> 
>     WebSockets
>      - Ideally want to set these per web app but we'd need to find a
>        configuration mechanism to use
> 
> Not done yet.

ServletContext initialisation parameters come to mind but I need to
check how accessible they are from the code that needs to use the
configuration. I think that might be something for M5.

>     Other
>      - Looks like NioSelectorShared has already been refactored out.
>      - The rest look difficult to remove.
> 
> 
> Yes, the rest are either impossible to remove, or super legacy ways to
> set default values and possibly "widely" used [looking at something like
> "jvmRoute", "catalina.config" or "catalina.useNaming" for example].

Agreed.

What we have though is a huge improvement on where things were. Thanks
for all you have done on this.

Mark

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