> On 21 Aug 2018, at 16:25, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Mortagne
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well actually it's not 100% true for Jetty either. We do test a lot an
> very customized version of Jetty (compared to the setup you get by
> default when you download Jetty) plus I had issues last time I tried
> to upgrade the version of Jetty (see
> https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15155).
Yes, but we could support Jetty OOB too. Would be good IMO.
Thanks
-Vincent
>
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
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>> Thomas Mortagne
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> Thomas Mortagne
