Hi, Ok here’s the first basic version of the page: https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ServletContainerSupportStrategy/
Please check it out. If someone has the itch it would be nice to provide icons for the various servlet containers as we do for browsers and DBs ;) Thanks -Vincent > On 24 Aug 2018, at 14:03, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > @All: ok I’m preparing the page. > > @Ilie, Gabriela: > > Please note that this means that in the Release Notes, starting with XWiki > 10.7, we also need to indicate what Servlet Containers were tested, in > addition to Browsers and Databases. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> On 21 Aug 2018, at 16:00, 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 >> >> 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 >> >
