On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Bernd Fondermann
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>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:

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>  >  >  3. We could approach the Tomcat people to make it behave more 
> gracefully.
>  >
>  >  think it's a spec compliance thing
>
>  yeah, but maybe could be ignored (as does Jetty). since they removed
>  the related entries from the libs, cannot be that important.

not sure whether jetty is TCK'd

>  >  >  4. We could change the JAR's Manifests.
>  >
>  >  seems the most expedient solution. would probably cause headaches for
>  >  maven users.
>
>  oops. didn't think of that. :-/
>
>
>  >  5. do we really need them at all ;-) ?
>  >
>  >  i'd much prefer to support servlet containers by using generic
>  >  servlets for the transport (rather than the avalon-based JAMES
>  >  handler). this would probably mean that the war deployment would be
>  >  spring only.
>
>  but this means a completely different, much more complex
>  spring-deployment than what we currently have.
>
>
>  >  IMO people using a servlet container are willing to compromise a
>  >  little on specification compliance for interoperability. using a
>  >  servlet for the socket layer is not gaurateed to be as compliant as
>  >  the well tested JAMES transport layer but IMHO this is a price which
>  >  many people would think worth paying.
>
>  would also need them paying me the man-month doing it ;-)

:-)

i suggest just continuing with jetty for now: we can tell tomcat users
to edit the manifest themselves

- robert

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