Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat/src/share/org/apache/tomcat/util/hooks Hooks.java

[Sam Ruby]

Jon Stevens wrote:
>
> Why does this scare me into thinking that if people
> start to base their code on top of this that they
> will be tying themselves to a single servlet engine?
> Isn't that something that we were trying to avoid?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong.

I see it as a good guideline, but not an iron clad rule.

There is precidence for it.  Take a peek at the catalina-wrapper target of
the jakarta-slide project, for example.

- Sam Ruby