I'd be in favor of removing. -- Jean-Louis Monteiro http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro http://www.tomitribe.com
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:28 AM David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > -- > David Blevins > http://twitter.com/dblevins > http://www.tomitribe.com > >
