We have a bit of unused legacy with regards to the following webapps:
34M tomee-microprofile-webapp-8.0.0-M3.war
58M tomee-plume-webapp-8.0.0-M3.war
51M tomee-plus-webapp-8.0.0-M3.war
6.6M tomee-webaccess-8.0.0-M3.war
32M tomee-webapp-8.0.0-M3.war
From the early days of TomEE we created a "drop-in webapp" version for plain
Tomcat users. This was largely for convenience to people who may have had to
use a stock Tomcat in cloud or other environments. The idea being they could
upgrade their Tomcat to a TomEE by dropping in the war.
In practice, I don't believe anyone actually used it and we do not heavily test
this technique. There is a known limitation that if your webapp starts before
the "tomee" webapp, the integration will have to do a separate
undeploy/redeploy of your webapp which is clunky. As well the magic required
to load the tomee webapp's contents into the Tomcat server classloader is
obtuse and complicates the integration.
We should discuss removing them from TomEE 8.0.
There'd be a bit of work involved, but it would trim a good 181MB from the
release process. We have to upload that 181MB twice; once to Nexus and once to
the Apache Mirror System staging repo. So in the end it reduces the upload
overhead by 362MB, which is a big deal if you're on a network not blazingly
fast.
Thoughts?
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David Blevins
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