Re: [DOC] TOC - thoughts

2001-07-16 Thread Christopher Cain
"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > > Christopher Cain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > IMNSHO, that kernel flag workaround is a joke. I almost fell out of my > > chair with laughter when I first read that proposed "solution" on the > > Sun forums.

Re: What if your message doesn't make to this list...

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: > > on 7/13/01 12:57 PM, "Christopher Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > "Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > >> > >> I got pretty upset with a couple of guys whose messages along the lines of > >>

Re: What if your message doesn't make to this list...

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > > I got pretty upset with a couple of guys whose messages along the lines of > "fix my servlet", and who asked me WHY I rejected those posts... [snip] I have a quick question, more out of idle curiosity than anything else. I assume that only posts from non-subscribe

OT - HTML dev-list filter?

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
I'm not familiar with list managing software myself, so I'll ask some of you who are. Is there any decent way of bouncing HTML-formatted messages from the lists (or at least this one)? Another OSS project I am involved in bounces multipart messages on its user list, which has the side-effect of re

Re: [DOC] TOC - thoughts

2001-07-13 Thread Christopher Cain
GOMEZ Henri wrote: > > >Putting little notes about things like the JDK 1.3.1 linux > >issue are VERY > >useful. I hate it when M$ have docs that don't mention things > >such as "none > >of your data is encrypted, by the way" > > JDK 1.3.1 problems with recent glibc could be fixed by adding : >

Re: [DOC] TOC - thoughts

2001-07-10 Thread Christopher Cain
"Rob S." wrote: [snip] > First off, I think we should have an ultra-quick install guide. If you're > like a lot of geeks, you know your stuff. You need to know a quick few > steps, a quick 2-3 gotchas, and BAM that's it. I want to make sure the > quick-and-dirty "impatient" install is availa

Re: Suggestions (was Re: hello everyone (regarding documentation))

2001-07-10 Thread Christopher Cain
Alex Fernández wrote: > > Hi Hiten! > > hiten pandya wrote: > > i am planning to start my own documentation project for Tomcat 3.3 and 4.0. > > The different thing about this project is that, i am going to port all of > > the tomcat documentation to XML Docbook format. > > Not speaking officia

Re: Vote on oustanding doc issues?

2001-07-09 Thread Christopher Cain
I was out of town for the holiday, so I have just read almost all of this ex post facto. It looks like there are quite a few people, myself included, willing to devote an appreciable amount of time to an informal new group of "doc wrangers." When I originally jumped into this thread early on, I ha

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project :WAS:[TomcatDocu mentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: > > on 7/3/01 11:50 AM, "Christopher Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The more (most) people have to > > try and learn an extensive DTD or templating system, the less likely > > they are to bother. > > I agree. Th

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project:WAS:[TomcatDocumentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
"Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote: > [snip] Most of this was under the assumption that there would be no one volunteer to dedicate additional time and energy in a little cabal of people to take the lead on organizing and standardizing Tomcat documention. Since I have now gone from, "Bah! Don't pester

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project : WAS:[TomcatDocumentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
ng rather than typing the same arguments over > and over. > > "Yes, I know you feel [21], but [17-19,28]." > > It would be so much quicker... > > Christopher Cain wrote: > > > > being bothered with this thread are both completely irrelevant, Ace. I > &

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project : WAS:[TomcatDocu mentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-03 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: > > on 7/2/01 6:04 PM, "Christopher Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I > > have no interest in Anakia, and quite frankly, as has been pointed out > > very astutely by Costin, I have no interest in bothering with XML fo

Re: [PRE-PROPOSAL] jakarta-tomcat-doc sub-project : WAS: [TomcatDocu mentation Redactors To Hire]

2001-07-02 Thread Christopher Cain
Jon Stevens wrote: > > The Tomcat website is already generated with Anakia. It is trivial to add > more .xml files to the site and there is absolutely no excuse to not just go > that route. > > I just don't see the merits of this discussion. Go write documentation > instead. > > -jon LOL. Oh

Re: FORM-based authentication idea

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Michael Jennings wrote: > > If this proposed feature (default login target) was added to tomcat, then > any JSP pages > developed would just behave a bit nicer in this special case, they would > still continue > to work correctly in any spec-compliant jsp container. I would simply be a little b

Re: FORM-based authentication idea

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Christopher Cain wrote: > > My main objection would be that it is adding > non-spec features, which means that any apps > written under Tomcat would not cleanly port > to other spec-compliant servlet containers. This, of course, should read: Any apps written under Tomcat &q

Re: FORM-based authentication idea

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Andy Armstrong wrote: > > Michael Jennings wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I just wanted to bounce an idea off of everyone. In tomcat, when one > > specifies form-based > > authentication you have to tell tomcat which page is the login page. This is > > done > > via the context's web.xml file

Re: JVM files on a standard linux box..

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Cain
Attached is the JDK1.2.2 listing. I also have a 1.3 JDK, so let me know if you would like that one as well. I'd be happy to send it. $MACHTYPE was not defined, at least on my RedHat 6.2 box. Dunno about config.guess, although I have a reasonably old (3.3m1) Tomcat installation on this machine. M

Taglibs Article

2001-05-25 Thread Christopher Cain
Jakarta Taglibs was one of the featured articles in the JDC Newsletter this morning. Here is the address for those of you not subscribed to it: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/JakartaTaglibs/ I'm guessing that you are now swinging your browser to that ad

Re: submitting a patch

2001-05-17 Thread Christopher Cain
I can hear it coming, so let me try and head it off. Having just recently gone through this same kind of thing on a different (non-Apache) dev list, I can sympathize with this question and applaud it's honesty. So please try and spare the flames. In answer to your question, Ryan, Tomcat accepts p

Re: web_app in jakarta-tomcat-connectors ?

2001-05-15 Thread Christopher Cain
+1 If there is a jakarta-tomcat-connectors branch, it should probably contain all of the connectors. When people hit the CVS tree and see a connectors branch, that is where they will logically assume all of the connectors are. > [+1] Let's move mod_webapp and all its related stuff in jakarta-con

Re: Trying New Connectors Build Stuff

2001-05-15 Thread Christopher Cain
For what it's worth, I prefer Cygwin. > So we have 2 cygwin (amy+jon) and 1 msvc (kevin)... I hoped to have more > feedback... I'll start with cygwin (since I can get it for free) > > Pier

Re: database access problem

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Cain
Asim: This is not the appropriate list for a JDBC question. This list is for Tomcat-related questions. However, in answer to your question ... I am surprised that this code works even in Access. The SQL you are using actually should not return any rows at all. It is an INSERT operation, not a SE

[PATCH] Install instructions using Ant 1.3

2001-03-08 Thread Christopher Cain
The attached adds building instructions to the README file for the new Ant 1.3 release (and fixes a minor typo). Unfortunately, I do not currently have access to a Win box. If someone could please verify the steps under Windows, that would probably be good. I doubt there are any noteworthy differe

Re: 3.3 build tree

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Steve Downey wrote: > then, from in the bld-gcc-2.95.2, you run ../gcc-2.95.2/configure, and the > build environment is created, while the source environment remains pristine. > This is imperative if you're building for several environments out of the > same source tree. In which case you might h

Re: 3.3 build tree

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GOMEZ Henri wrote: > > > > > And +1 for TC 3.x branch. > > > > Yes, please. =) > > Not so fast, please :-) > > There are scripts and people using the current style. > > -0 on changing 3.x: > I think the sources and binaries shouldn't be in the same directory > tree

Re: [Tomcat 4.0] Proposed Change in Build Scripts

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote: > jakarta-tomcat-4.0 > build/<-- Build destination for Tomcat > dist/ <-- Dist destinatino for Tomcat > catalina/ > build/<-- Build destination for Catalina portion > > di

Re: [Tomcat 4.0] Proposed Change in Build Scripts

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
GOMEZ Henri wrote: > And +1 for TC 3.x branch. Yes, please. =) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REPOST : extracting jsp filename from generated class

2001-02-01 Thread Christopher Cain
Shahed Ali wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for this repost. > > >From within a jsp page, I need to know the name of the jsp page. > > If I do a <%=this.getClass()%>, I get a string which represents the class > name > of the generated servlet. Parse it off of the getRequestURI() method. Regards, Chr

Nightly Build Link

2001-01-25 Thread Christopher Cain
I just attempted to grab the latest 3.x nightly source from the Jakarta site. The link points to: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/nightly/src/ ... but returns a 404. Any ideas? (I am stuck in Windoze at the moment and cannot set up CVS on this box.) Thanks ... Christopher

Re: Call for volunteers

2001-01-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Hi Costin. I will definitely help in the documentation area, and will probably assist with bug verification/tracking (if time permits). > 3. Code review/Documentation: The code is not perfect, but it should do > its job. Reading the tomcat.core and making sure it's ok is essential. I will write

Re: Fuck It.

2000-12-21 Thread Christopher Cain
"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > Christopher Cain wrote: > > > > "Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > > > > > Where were you KIDS when we were fighting the big > > > corporations to have them looking into open source, to contribute > > > s

Re: F**k It. (off topic)

2000-12-21 Thread Christopher Cain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't mean to sound as though I am a prude, but we do a lot of our > consulting at customer sites, much of it face-to-face with the customer's > staff and management. I can control what messages I read and when but I > cannot control when people are in my office and

Re: Fuck It.

2000-12-21 Thread Christopher Cain
"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > Where were you KIDS when we were fighting the big > corporations to have them looking into open source, to contribute > significant parts of their technologies to the Foundation, where were you > while we were changing this world? You were home, and one day, you looke

Re: An open letter to 3 developers

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Ted Husted wrote: > It seems to me that the core issue is that > > * TC3.x will need more committers if it is going to remain viable once > TC4 is released. > > If you believe in Costin and TC3.x, then the thing to do is jump-in and > earn your committer's badge, so you will have a binding vote.

An open letter to 3 developers

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Cain
Preamble: First off, let me take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who has contributed to making Tomcat the great product that it is. I know that gets said sometimes, but not nearly enough. I have been a longtime lurker and occasional poster to this list. As a Java developer wh

(very) minor dist. problem

2000-12-13 Thread Christopher Cain
The build.sh file in the source download of the servletapi is not marked as executable. No biggie, just thought I'd pass it along ...

Re: liaison Apache-tomcat

2000-11-06 Thread Christopher Cain
serge expert wrote: > > comment faire pour configurer et installer Apache > 1.3.12 avec Tomcat en utilisant le module Apache Jserv > sur un systeme AIX 4.3.2 ou 4.3.3 > > JE n'arrive pas à installer Apache JServ > > merci >serge expert > Traduction Angl

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