On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Thor HW wrote:
> I believe the Watchdog parts are the compliance tests.
>
> As for HOW vendor Y implements a feature, I doubt you would know
> unless you decompiled it, which would be illegal. All you really
> care about is that a spec feature is implemented, not HOW. A
> reference implementation is refered to when the spec alone is not
> crystal clear and an example of how the feature is to react is
> needed.
The posts you are responding to make no explicit reference to "HOW" a
feature is implemented, and any implicit reference is to the black box
behavior of the feature rather than the algorithm used (at least, that
seemed clear to me).
> As to the production quality, if a vendor can't cut it against
[ ... ]
Similar, there was no mention of "production quality" in the previous
posts, so I'm not sure of the relevance of this.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stark, Scott (Exchange) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 8:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?
>
>
> > I agree with this logic from a vendors perspective. Conformance should be
> > based on a well defined compatability test suite and any servlet engine
> > vendor can measure themselves against. Does such a test suite exist?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vince Bonfanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:26 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I'm concerned about this from the perspective of the vendor of a
> > servlet/JSP engine that strives to faithfully implement the specs. My
> > concern is that people will apply the following logic to non-spec
> features:
> >
> > 1. Tomcat is the Reference Implementation of servlets/JSP.
> > 2. Tomcat implements Feature X.
> > 3. Vendor Y's servlet engine doesn't implement Feature X, or
> implements
> > it differently than Tomcat.
> > 4. Therefore, Vendor Y's servlet engine isn't spec-compliant.
> >
>
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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