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: > > Hi all, > > 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. > > 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? > > cheers > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Greg Wilkins <[email protected]> > http://eclipse.org/jetty HTTP, SPDY, Websocket server and client that > scales > http://www.webtide.com advice and support for jetty and cometd. > > _______________________________________________ > jetty-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/jetty-users > >
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