Henri Gomez wrote: > The idea being to provide a minimal tomcat binary and > many external modules which will be linked at runtime if > present, Apache 2.0 does it that way, why could we do the > same.
Another solution can be seen in jboss. They do pack all the components ( or almost ), but also 3 "config" - minimal, default and all. One benefit is consistency. They do actually have 3-4 binary distributions - with the various servlet containers they support, but that's mostly because the integration of the container is not that integrated ( at least for tomcat ). I like very much Henri's proposal of fully-modular tomcat. The "minimal" would become JMX ( and modeler ). Then various "profiles" can be configured - by either a config file or placing some jars in a dir. You could have a JK-only ( for example jk + Axis - as a soap server ), or servlet only, or any other combination - all based on a simple config file. Yes - Jon will not be happy ( as far as I know Jon ) if jasper.jar is anywhere in the distribution, even if it is not used. I think the real argument against my "minimal" proposal is the current lack of the modular "add-on" mechanism. We almost have it, but something more is needed. There is one short-term solution - port the "modules" from 3.3 ( basically take the server/webapps/*/WEB-INF/lib and add this to the server loader, plus the config file ). Long term we can use JMX mlets to load the modules. We'll still have a single release of tomcat ( that doesn't mean we can't have more packages ). A single tomcat is quite important IMO - at least for our community. > > All we need is a more modular approach of TC 5, which should > be able to load modules (JMX/JASPER) if available in classpath. > > If you take a look at how decent packaging tools like rpm/debian > works, they are able to install a PRIMARY PACKAGE and OPTIONAL > PACKAGES. For your purpose, scarab for example, you could only > stay with the bare minimum TC 5, without installing the rest > of TC 5. > > What about ? +1 Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
