I agree but I also think that this should be made clear on the Sun web page
describing JSP and, in particular, on the JSP 0.92 download page - I
certainly did not realise that "reference implementation" meant "does not
work with a real web server".

Obviously,  I am not alone in failing to make this distinction.

Regards - Tom O'Hare

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Cobb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 April 1999 16:09
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: JSP 1.0
>
> When someone signs on to this mainling list, the first thing that should
> be sent to them is that the 0.92 reference implementation does not work
> with any other web server -- neither JSDK 2.0 nor JSDK 2.1 web servers.
> It has it's own built-in web server that works only with itself.
>
> The JSP FAQ can be found at:
>
> http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.txt
>
> which anwers these and other questions.
>
> cc
>
> Laird Nelson wrote:
>
> > Abhishek Chauhan wrote:
> >
> > > There will be a reference implementation for the JSP 1.0 spec.  I
> > > cannot say if the release of the spec and the implementation will
> > > coincide.
> >
> > Forgive me if this is so basic as to be stupid, but what reference
> > implementation came with the 0.92 spec apart from a few JSP pages?  I'm
> looking
> > at the JSP package that I just downloaded from Sun, and all I see are
> some JSP
> > pages and a few bean files--but nothing that will make my webserver
> recognize
> > them as anything special.  For that I need JRun or something similar.  I
> had
> > been under the impression that what JRun provides is the "reference
> > implementation" of the specification.  Does Sun provide its own
> webserver
> > plugin of some kind--is that what you mean by "reference
> implementation"?  If
> > so, where can I find it since it is not part of the JSP distribution?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Laird
> >
> >
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