From: "Scott Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <vendor-bias>
> Tomcat isn't really a reference implementation. It's the Apache group's
> servlet implementation. Sun has chosen, for its own reasons, to select
> the Apache group as its preferred servlet vendor. Calling Tomcat a
> "reference implementation" is just marketing fluff.
>
> Orion is a better reference implementation than Tomcat in the sense of
> "if my implementation doesn't do the same thing, then it's probably
> wrong." Orion implements the specs more faithfully than Tomcat does.
>
> Unfortunately, this diminishes Sun's credibility as an impartial
> standards arbiter, but that's Sun's choice. Microsoft doesn't even
> pretend to be impartial with its ASP standard, and it's rather
> successful, so maybe it's not a bad decision.
> </vendor-bias>
This is very funny:
if (Sun doesn't do real open source)
Sun is evil;
else // Sun does real open source
Sun is evil;
I agree that TomCat shouldn't be considered a reference implementation. Sun
should give us: a) a good specification, b) a good compliance-checking tool,
which would let us know which implementations are true to item 'a'.
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