> if Tomcat had the option to ignore META-INF/resources in JAR files Perhaps interesting: of the 27 JAR files in my dummy application, not a single one has a META-INF/resources.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:40 PM Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ty, > > On 2/16/16 3:11 PM, Ty wrote: > > George, thanks for sharing your experience, good to know I'm not > > the first down this path. I'd be interested to know if you've > > tested at all with Tomcat 8 and what your findings were, if so. > > Based on my experience I'd expect you to be in a similar boat to > > us. > > > > Mark, thanks for the reply. I've uploaded my "dummy" webapp here: > > > > http://filebin.ca/2XCPi8oAdy84/test.war > > > > As for the JAR scanning / startup times, with Tomcat 8's jarsToScan > > setting I'm confident we'd be able to manage that, and am happy to > > leapfrog over Tomcat 7. It's the memory utilization in Tomcat 8 > > specifically, independent of JAR scanning, that's the show-stopper > > for us. Let me know if I can provide any other info, and thanks > > again. > > I'm not sure if others will agree, but if Tomcat had the option to > ignore META-INF/resources in JAR files, you could probably save some > memory. Since you are currently using Tomcat 6, this setting wouldn't > affect you at all, since Tomcat 6 didn't expose those files in the way > Mark describes. On the other hand, since it's a spec-requirement, > there may be some pushback amongst the team here as to whether or not > we should implement such a workaround. > > We have lots of other settings that can technically be used to violate > spec-defined behavior, so it's not like there isn't precedent for such > things. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlbDlzAACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBWDgCfV3efH9stmGMVPFtch9unNeJl > Dq4AoJwlx4NbRa9NfHzu10XHLV86FBGf > =hafd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
