But what about the watchdog part (http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html) of
Tomcat then? I think it is better to develop a reference platform independently of
one vendor. Sun, IBM and others are involved in Tomcat/Watchdog.
Ronald
Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Ted Neward wrote:
>
> > Does anybody else have a problem with a "production-quality" servlet
> > engine also serving as the reference implementation for servlets
> > and/or JSP? I have always operated under the belief that a "reference
> > implementation" was supposed to be plain-vanilla, no optimizations,
> > stick-to-the-letter-of-the-spec,
> > if-it-ain't-in-the-spec-it-ain't-in-here kind of implementation. JSWDK
> > was precisely this--it demonstrated servlets simply, cleanly (IMHO),
> > without a lot of bells-n-whistles to get in the way. My concern is
> > that Sun's stated intent (by calling it a reference implementation) is
> > at cross-purposes with Apache's stated intent (to make it a
> > production-quality engine). These are, for the most part,
> > mutually-exclusive goals.
>
> <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>
>
> Scott Ferguson
> Caucho Technology
>
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