Re: Local macros [was: RE: quick note on recent changes]

[Jon Stevens]

on 12/6/2000 3:22 PM, "Brian Goetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It's easy to say that, but you don't always have control over this.  What
> if an ISP offers servlet hosting with Velocity support?  Two separate
> Velocity applications could then easily be loaded on the same JVM.
> 
> Ditto for a corporate site that provides hosting infrastructure to multiple
> independent business units within a company.  Or a site that offers
> customized versions to private customers, like a company-specific portal.
> 
> (If you don't care about these situations, you could easily just decide
> that this is a workgroup tool and not meant to scale up to situations like
> that, but if so, stating that as part of the tool's charter helps get
> everyone on the same page.)

Different servlet context's have different classloaders and thus are
protected from each other.

-jon

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