On 15/07/2013 10:38, Rainer Frey wrote: > > On 11.07.2013, at 17:36, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > >> Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >>> You mention header/footers, which was in the back of my mind when >>> I posted this. Placing headers/footers in WEB-INF doesn't allow >>> me to re-use these in different webapps, without having multiple >>> copies of these? If I have a header/footer template in >>> \webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\templates\, I can't reference it from >>> \webapps\App2\WEB-INF\templates ... or can I? >> >> There are 2 schools of thought here. One says that webapps should >> be independent of one another. > > And that's the only "school of thought" that the servlet spec > supports (for better or worse). At the deployed application stage > (vs. development) reuse is not supported at all, each web app must be > self-contained.
There was going to be support for overlays in Servlet 3.1 but that got dropped as part of dropping anything related to multi-tenancy. Generally, I think dropping the multi-tenancy stuff was a good idea. I'd prefer to see a clearer requirement for it from the user base and it is something I rarely see here and when it is seen there is usually a way to meet the requirement with existing functionality anyway. The overlap support would have been useful. The good news from a user point of view is that I re-wrote the resource implementation for Tomcat 8 with overlay support in mind. (The bad news from my point of view is the first piece of Servlet 3.1 functionality I invested time in was dropped pretty much as I finished the work. Hey ho.) The new resource implementation is still in Tomcat 8 and should make sharing content between web applications very simple. Of course, it will be Tomcat specific. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
