Super helpful -- thanks, Nick. I'll switch to T8 right away. It's alpha status is not a problem in my case. -Igor.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Nick Williams < nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Nick Williams wrote: > > > > > On Aug 2, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Igor Urisman wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> I'm looking into a solution that will make extensive use of websockets. > >> Details are unimportant, but here's the question that I'd like to have > some > >> insight into. The current implementation (official > >> example< > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/websocket/chat/ChatWebSocketServlet.java?revision=1354477&view=markup > >) > >> seems independent of the JSR > >> 356<http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/doc/websocket.htm>. > >> Is work underway to implement the javax.websocket.* objects, or is > what's > >> in org.apache.catalina.websocket it for the enforceable future? > > > > Tomcat 8 has a completed (though not yet fully tested and vetted) > implementation of JSR-356. We're voting right now on the developer's > mailing list whether to release Tomcat 8.0.0-RC1 alpha. > > > > Though Tomcat 8 is the only Tomcat that will support the Servlet, JSP, > and EL specifications included in Java EE 7 (they will not be back-ported > to Tomcat 7), a decision was made a while ago to deprecate the existing > Tomcat 7 WebSocket implementation and back-port JSR-356 to Tomcat 7. This > is the only Java EE 7 component that will be back-ported to Tomcat 7, > AFAIK. I don't personally know this will happen (I'm not one of the > developers), but since the JSR-356 implementation in Tomcat 8 is complete > now, it shouldn't be too long. > > **I don't personally know WHEN this will happen… > > > > > If you want to play with the JSR-356 implementation for now, feel free > to download and use Tomcat 8 RC1 when it releases in (hopefully) the next > few days. We encourage it, because the more people who download it and try > it out, the better our chances of chasing down and fixing bugs now instead > of after a general release. > > You could also download the POTENTIAL release candidate that is being > voted on right now ( > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.0-RC1/bin/), > but I can't guarantee that this is the actual release candidate that will > come out. > > > > > Nick >
