I'll plead ignorance: I haven't had experience with Jetty or recent versions of Tomcat. I wouldn't mind seeing what you can put together, and I agree that all else being equal, we should prefer ASF projects.
Perhaps the bundled appserver shouldn't even be a minimal install given that some will just copy the example directory to get their project off the ground. -Yonik On 2/19/06, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > This FUD upset me enough to actually write a response email on my > otherwise splendid vacation. Tomcat 5.5.15 normal binary distro is > 6.5MB, Jetty 6.0beta9 is 12.6MB. You can have a Tomcat server running > in a sub 2MB footprint, again less than or close to than you can get a > Jetty with JSP running. I'm not -1 on Jetty, although I'm -0 for what > I think is an important reason: Jetty is not from Apache, Tomcat is, > Solr is. If you want to use Jetty do so but please don't use the > wrong, out-of-date, FUD-driven reasons for choosing it over Tomcat. > OTOH, I'm a big +1 for using Tomcat because it's an Apache project > like Solr, and would be willing to do the packaging work to get a > Tomcat demo with Ant stuff when I come back at the end of the month. > > Yoav
