What I'd like would be a Jakarta version of something small and simple like the oldest available Jetty version.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher K.St.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 6:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PATCH] MinimalTomcat, Coupling, Bugs 6669, 6670 > > Aaron Smuts wrote: > > > > I'm very interested. We should call it HouseCat. I'd > > like to find a home for it if it doesn't fit into tomcat. > > > > I detest housecats, but I suppose that's not really the > point :-) You're no friend of mine then. :) > > I'm not sure my is generally useful. The basic approach > probably is, but maybe not the code. > > I personally don't really need all the > run-time event stuff (not the servlet-spec events, the > Catalina internal events). I don't need JSP. I don't > need run-time parsing of the config server.xml and > web.xml files. I don't need the full-on security > architecture (so I don't need facades and I don't > need SecurityManager code). I don't need (but kinda > want) the JMX management interfaces. Etc. > Sounds about like what I need. I need an engine to serve a simple servlet embedded in a cache server so I can clear the caches and monitor the regions. > The code I've written is only useful if you're > eliminating the exact same set of things I am. Otherwise, > you bloat out until you're full-on Catalina again. > (OTOH, projects like Galeon managed to find generally > useful subsets of Mozilla, so there's an existence proof > that such a thing is possible.) > > But if I'm the only one use Catalina as a framework > instead of as a monolithic servlet container, it isn't > going to work. There's too much pressure on developers > to 'cheat' and tightly couple all the implementation > classes. It's just easier that way. Right now, MinimalTomcat > basically can't use anything within o.a.catalina.core, > but eventually all the packages will be tightly linked > unless there's some sort of incentive not to. > Sounds like you'll have trouble when the parent package changes. You need something new and separate. Aaron > > -- > Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
