Fran Varin wrote: > Mark, > Thank you for your reply. I am aware that Glassfish is not Tomcat. However, > it seems to me that since the class in question is managed by Apache that > there must have been some level of collaboration between the two teams
Tomcat was originated with a code donation from Sun. Some time ago (I forget exactly when), Sun started Glassfish and forked the Tomcat code as a starting point. > and a > reasonable assumption on my part that Apache may have been working to enable > Jasper to address JSR 199. I am not aware of any efforts in this direction. It appears that you are implying something to the > contrary; along the lines that Sun may have taken a snapshot of Jasper and > modified it specifically for Glassfish perhaps. Exactly. > This is certainly possible > but, I don't see this as feasible since they have made the statement that > they (Sun) have adopted Jasper as their compiler.> I haven't seen that statement so can't comment. > With all that said, it > still leaves me in a place where I'm wondering how Jasper might be used to > actually compile a JSP outside of using the ANT or JSPC approach. Now, that > Java SE 6 has a nice Compile class it seems like we are much closer to being > able to take a standardized approach to real-time compilation. This, in > essence is what I am attempting to explore. Patches are always welcome. > The class I mentioned appeared, > at least on the surface, to be such an effort on the part of Sun and Apache. > I am willing to concede that perhaps it is not and would like that > clarification from Apache or Sun should that be the case. The above should clarify this. HTH, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
