We were not able to get the IP clearances from eclipse in time for
apache-jsp to be included in 9.1.4

It is in 9.2.0.M0 that has been staged.

regards



On 20 March 2014 11:05, "" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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>> --
>> Greg Wilkins <[email protected]>
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>> scales
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