On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > Right now we have: > * Supported browsers: > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy > * Supported DBs: > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy > > But we don’t have a list of supported Servlet Containers. > > I think the reason is that we considered that XWiki would work on all of > them. While this is true, in practice it means testing and finding the right > configuration for XWiki to work on the various contrainers. Thus it requires > time and testing, thus support. > > For example right now lots of users have trouble making XWiki work on Wildfly > or Glassfish. In the past I had worked on those and documented how to make > XWiki work on them but new version have come up and XWiki has changed too and > seems work is needed to document. I also added some jboss-reated config files > in our distribution to make it easy and work OOB for JBoss. We might need to > do that for other containers or udpate those files. > > So IMO we should list a subset of Servlet Containers that we official support > (ie. that we actively tests and update documentation, fix code when needed). > Same as for DBs and browsers, the community is welcome to provide support for > more ofc. > > For me the supported list should be for now: > * Jetty > * Tomcat
At least this list would make official what is the current situation which is not bad. > > I’m hesitating with Wildfly and Glassfish since they’re quite popular too. It > would be nice to have them but I don’t think we have the manpower ATM so I > would leave them to the community for now, as a best effort. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > -- Thomas Mortagne
