RE: [DOC] Vote on oustanding doc issues?

2001-07-12 Thread Robert Slifka
> I was off the list for a while. I tried to read through the > archives but all > the vitriol gave me a headache. Did they just agree to > disagree? Do you > think there'll be a problem with proposing to remove the 3.2 > docs from the site? >From what I remember, 3.3 is a major refactoring

RE: Vote on oustanding doc issues?

2001-07-12 Thread Robert Slifka
> Anyway, I agree with Rob. I would like to see a committer > bring at least > #1 to a vote at this point. That way we can at least get the >From Craig and Pier, we have a "negative" on the applicability of TC3<->TC4 docs. I believe Henri thinks otherwise. Would any other knowledgeable partie

RE: PROPOSAL: Tomcat docs

2001-07-04 Thread Robert Slifka
> How about "(Web?) Application Developers' Guide", to more > closely map to the > servlet spec terminology. For the other bit, maybe "Container > Architecture Guide". > I think we should avoid the phrase "Tomcat Developer" since, > as this mailing list > proves, many application developers th

RE: PROPOSAL: Tomcat docs

2001-07-04 Thread Robert Slifka
More refinements... if i didn't quote it, I agree with it =) BTW, what does "AW" in a subject line mean? I see it all the time... 0) Introduction to the TC4 container ADD > - Requirements (JDK versions, extra libs?, etc.) 1) "User's Guide" (or "Administrator's") > - Tomcat and different

RE: PROPOSAL: Tomcat docs

2001-07-04 Thread Robert Slifka
...and thank you btw =) I'm getting more excited now since this is exactly the type of discussion I hoped we would be in! (re: suggesting different sections, etc.) I'll just throw this out there and everyone can quote it, etc. It contains a few of mine, and all of Martin's (spliced, relocated,

RE: PROPOSAL: Tomcat docs - was TC4 docs - can we end this?

2001-07-04 Thread Robert Slifka
For the record, I'm going to keep track of the different proposals in a separate doc. For the TC docs - what to include, the glue, etc. I'm no longer participating in the "how do we store it or what format do we use" discussion =) - r > -Original Message- > From: Martin van den Bemt [m

RE: [Tomcat Documentation Redactors To Hire] - WAS: TOMCAT SUCKS

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Slifka
> What a whiner ;-)j/k, honest, I perceive the Devil's advocacy > role. It is true, most OS projects suffer from this, but only > from an outsider's point of view. The people who develop the > stuff and use it all the time, DO NOT NEED DOCUMENTATION. > People who do not participate, DO. S

RE: Tomcat and Beans

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Slifka
;, what do you mean? > > How are these beans being instantiated and added to the application? > > Paul Hunnisett wrote: > > > > The application is not being shut down! Yet somehow my > beans are getting > > "reset". > > > > Paul &

RE: Tomcat and Beans

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Slifka
t: RE: Tomcat and Beans > > > The application is not being shut down! Yet somehow my beans > are getting > "reset". > > Paul > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Slifka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 28 June 2001 13:26 > To: '[EMAIL PR

RE: Tomcat and Beans

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Slifka
>From "The Java Programming Language, 3rd. Ed" "When an application exits, no further GC is performed, so any objects that have not yet been collected will not have their finalize() methods invoked." - r > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hunnisett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: June

JSP 1.1 - Spec compliancy?

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Slifka
On pg. 107 of the JSP spec, it says that out = pageContext.popBody(); is executed after doAfterBody() when SKIP_BODY is returned, but before doEndTag(). So this means that all I have to do is return SKIP_BODY from doAfterBody() and the processed (unmodified in my case) body content will be outp

~rant~ Docs, user list, etc.

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Slifka
I've only recently re-subscibed to the user list, but so far, since last summer, the average quality of question seems way down. I guess it's a testament to Tomcat's increasing popularity. People think, "oh, Tomcat!" then they come here and email to the user list, "How do i install and configure

TC 3.x docs

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Slifka
Who's doing docs nowadays? Mike B, are you still reading tomcat-dev? - r