I would regard the current 9.1.3 version of Jetty broken and this upgrade
is necessary to fix it.

This because of the NullPointerExceptions:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=426757

Our upgrade to 9.x from 8.x was nearly halted by this and most people will
not wanting to be patching javax.servlet.jsp-2.3.2.jar themselves.


On 14 March 2014 13:28, Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> The maintenance of the glassfish Jasper JSP code base has fallen behind
> apache's version.  There are now several unfixed bugs in the glassfish
> version.
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> Thus I'd very much like to switch to using apache's jasper implementation,
> but we need to be a bit mindful of exactly how we do this as I don't want
> to break anything in a dot release - specially not changing any module
> names (as the whole point of jetty mods is to allow easy upgrade).
>
> So here is the approximate plan that I'm considering.
>
> In the 9.1.4 release (next week or two), we will add a apache-jsp mod,
> that can be used instead of the current jsp module to use the apache
> version of jasper.    However, we will not change any of the hard JSP
> dependencies from the jetty-maven-plugin or the jetty-jspc-plugin, so they
> will continue to function normally, as will any distro/base that does not
> explicitly switch to apache-jsp.
>
> I then think this is a high enough priority to make the next release after
> that a 9.2.0, which will allow us to make a switch to using the apache-jsp
> module by default in the distro and both plugins.  We will then provide a
> glassfish-jsp mod that can optionally be used to switch back to glassfish
> JSP if you really want to.
>
> Another slight complication is JSTL.  Currently we put that on the server
> classpath whenever JSP is enabled.   It appears that it is far more common
> to include the JSTL jar inside the WEB-INF/lib of the wars that use it.
> Thus I propose that 9.2.0 will split out JSTL into it's own mod file and it
> will be able to be individually enabled/disabled as desired, independently
> of JSP usage.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable plan?
> How much demand is there for a rapid switch to apache-jsp?
> Is an imminent version change to 9.2.x going to upset anybodies deployment
> plans?
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> cheers
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