craigmcc 00/10/28 17:45:37 Modified: . NEW_SPECS.txt Log: Update compliance status on the various new features of the Servlet 2.3 API. Revision Changes Path 1.7 +10 -11 jakarta-tomcat-4.0/NEW_SPECS.txt Index: NEW_SPECS.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/NEW_SPECS.txt,v retrieving revision 1.6 retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 --- NEW_SPECS.txt 2000/10/17 23:05:47 1.6 +++ NEW_SPECS.txt 2000/10/29 00:45:36 1.7 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ New Spec Features Implementation ================================ -$Id: NEW_SPECS.txt,v 1.6 2000/10/17 23:05:47 pierred Exp $ +$Id: NEW_SPECS.txt,v 1.7 2000/10/29 00:45:36 craigmcc Exp $ Introduction @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ that simply log things with ServletContext.log() to show that they were reached. -Servlet Filters [Medium Rare] ------------------------------ +Servlet Filters [Medium] +------------------------ You can now register Filters in the web.xml file that are the application level analogue to Valves in the Catalina core. Filters have the following general features: @@ -61,18 +61,17 @@ mapped to the invoker servlet ("/servlet/*"), which stores a request attribute that is passed on to the servlet that is ultimately executed. -Dependencies on Installed Extensions [Medium Rare] --------------------------------------------------- +Dependencies on Installed Extensions [Medium] +--------------------------------------------- Web applications, or the JAR files in the WEB-INF/lib directory, can now declare their dependence on particular versions of external libraries that may be provided by the container as shared extensions. No work has been done to implement this capability in Catalina yet. -Internationalization Fixes [Medium Rare] ----------------------------------------- +Internationalization Fixes [Medium] +----------------------------------- Catalina now supports mapping Locales to character sets, and the new -setCharacterEncoding() method on ServletRequest. Much more testing and -enhancement is needed in this area. +setCharacterEncoding() method on ServletRequest. Web Application Classloader [Medium Well] ----------------------------------------- @@ -80,8 +79,8 @@ related to the classloader provided to a web application. These requirments are currently followed in Catalina. -DTD for Servlet 2.3 Application Deployment Descriptor [Medium] --------------------------------------------------------------- +DTD for Servlet 2.3 Application Deployment Descriptor [Medium Well] +------------------------------------------------------------------- An unofficial version of the DTD for parsing web.xml files is included in Catalina (in the source repository it is at "catalina/src/conf/web_23.dtd"). It will be replaced by the official version when published. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]