Vikram,
The aim is to get up off the ground quickly, however the beauty of Open Source and the aim of the Geronimo project would not be to preclude the use of other web containers, but to encourage you to go out, build your own and contribute it.
Geronimo services will be pluggable and interchangeable. I'm sure another webcontainer would be welcome. It's simply that it is not on our critical path, because we already have two.
Jules
Daniel Hofstetter wrote:
Hi Vikram
I noticed early on that a conscious decision has been made to avoid
developing a servlet and JSP engine and rather rely on embedding either
Tomcat or Jetty. Is this correct?
Afaik: yes.
If this is the case, is there a rationale decision for this? If we are
developing everything from scratch, then why not the servlet and JSP
engine
as well? It makes more sense than embedding other implementations.
To create an appserver from scratch means not to reinvent everything :) (see FAQ: "What other projects will Geronimo reuse?")
I think to develop another servlet/JSP engine isn't worth the effort because there exist with Tomcat/Jetty already good products. It makes more sense to concentrate the forces on a good integration of these components and, if necessary, to enhance them.
Bye, Daniel
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