Re: JSPC refactoring/documentation

[Remy Maucherat]

Bill Barker wrote:

>Based on problems reported by users of JSPC Remy made a proposal
>to deprecate it.
>
>This resulted in a number of people responding that they used JSPC
>and strongly felt it should be kept.
>
>There did seem to be some consensus that JSPC could beneifit from
>a review and refactoring to make it easier to use.
>
>It could also benefit from better documentation if it is to remain
>part of Tomcat.
>
>Perhaps those who so strongly support JSPC should take the lead to
>review, refactor, simplify, and better document JSPC.  Perhaps a
>JSPC-HOWTO for the Tomcat docs once the refactoring is completed?
>
>
>This could be part of a Tomcat 4.2 development effort.
>There has been some discussion about other possible new features.
>
>Some new features/changes that have been discussed:
>
>A SecurityManager XML Policy file that allows secure delegation
>to web applications for setting their own policies (within a sandbox).
>
>Using JMX to instrument Tomcat for production runtime monitoring.
>
>Possibly a JSPC refactoring.
>
>Audit the SecurityManager web application sandbox.
>
>Are there other changes/features that could be part of Tomcat 4.2

development?


>From previous posts, I gather that Remy isn't interested in RMing a 4.2
release.  Unless Remy jumps in and tells me that I don't know what I'm
talking about :), the biggest change would be to find someone to volunteer
to RM it.

I think we have too many dev branches already, and this is causing maintenance problems. I'd like to have those things go in either 4.1 or 5.0. Esp the jspc refactoring ;-) jspc is currently broken in 4.1 and not really usable to a normal Tomcat user, it needs to be fixed in 4.1.x. Please :)

I'd also like to point out that the servlet API changes are very limited, and it will be possible to use Tomcat 5.0 with the Jasper from Tomcat 4.1. So I think "major" new features should go in the 5.0 codebase.

Rémy


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