Hi;
    I agree with what your saying, and as we know, spec change, and 
things can get sticky. No negative was intended here.. You have some 
suggestions. I usually build off the nightly, I can play around with 
configurations, that's expected... Some suggestions would be good.. I 
think it's great product, and best I have seen in the category, which is 
why I'm promoting it.

David Sean Taylor wrote:

>Jetspeed works great with Tomcat 4 (Catalina)
>Been using it for a long time now.
>Whats the problem?
>
>>your server. The theory should be the software can be made to 
>>work with 
>>the server, not visa versa... anyway..
>>
>
>Im not sure if I agree with that statement. 
>Both the application server and the servlet must conform to a contract:
>the servlet api standard.
>Could you please explain how Jetspeed is breaking this contract? I am saying Jetspeed 
>breaks this contract, however, I as a non-programmer, learning programmer would 
>expect a build "for" tomcat4 or tomcat3 should work with minimal tweaking... If as I 
>see people talking about moving this jar and that jar to other directies, etc.. in 
>tomcat can I would imagine come down later to other issues, with other programs.. I 
>hope that's simple enough... there been a lot of chat about this, but I haven't seen 
>any answers that I can digest..
>AFAIK, we are doing our part in following the standard servlet api. I agree, great 
>project and great teamwork...
>
>The goal is "write once deploy anywhere"
>Minor problems come in since the spec is open to interpretation by
>application servers. Yes, I agree... this is sort of what I'm saying. If you try to 
>be all things to all people, it can end up quite a cluge.. 
>The differences in interpretation is where the problems begin.
>Overall though, the problems are usually relatively minor. YES, but minor for a 
>programmer is a week or a month for a non-programmer..
>
>Ensuring that it works on Tomcat, the ref.impl., doesn't guarantee it
>will work straight from the war elsewhere.
>Tomcat is just another interpretation of the spec.
>One problem is that Jetspeed writes to the db, log files, and psml all
>inside the war.... not sure what your saying here... I exand my wars normally.. 
>
>
>What happens if the war isn't expanded to the file system by the
>app.server?
>From what I can understand from the spec., expanding to the file system
>is optional.
>
>Thanks for any advice you can give... for how to configure, or what needs to be 
>changes specifically.
>

todd

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: todd tredeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:02 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Jetspeed and Tomcat 4
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>>I want to use Jetspeed with Tomcat 4.02 and JVM 1.3.1. I 
>>don't want to 
>>modify the "standard" Tomcat. I don't think you should have to modify 
>>your server. The theory should be the software can be made to 
>>work with 
>>the server, not visa versa... anyway..
>>
>>Q: Has anyone managed to get Jetspeed working with TC4
>>Q: What modifications or build procedure to do this.
>>
>>greetings
>>
>>todd
>>http://www.wiserlabz.com
>>collaborative effort to promote Novell and Open Source Solutions
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