On Apr 22, 2009, at 2:50 AM, David Jencks wrote:
On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:42 PM, David Jencks wrote:
On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:33 PM, Jack Cai wrote:
I agree that a 2.2 release would be nice to do to push out things
already in trunk, before our users wait for too long. :-)
I'm reviewing the list of planned features [1] and current status
[2] of 2.2. The latter [2] is more up-to-date. It would be good to
make clear the areas that need some more work, so that people like
me can jump in and help. Currently the major development items I
see -
1. TCK, need a committer to do the job
2. MDB problems mentioned above
3. JMS portlets update mentioned above
4. Farm/cluster management (do we still want this in 2.2?)
What's the problem with (4)?
I've been assuming that the classloader work Gianny and I have been
working on in my sandbox would get into 2.2. At the moment I think
I have the classloader framework more or less working and I'm going
through the plugins working on setting up the required jar
dependencies. Only some of them can be derived from maven
dependencies. This is turning out to be a somewhat slow process.
I finally got the server to run with the one-classloader-per-jar
setup. After struggling with this for a couple of weeks and seeing
the difficultly of correctly configuring classloaders I don't think
we should put this into 2.2. For one thing classloading seems to be
pretty slow: it takes about 55 seconds to start the jetty-jee5 server.
Ouch.
At the moment I think a reasonable strategy would be to:
1. branch 2.2 off of trunk now
2. merge in the classloader work from my sandbox framework and local
copy
3. upgrade trunk version to 3.0-SNAPSHOT
4. work on using osgi classloading instead of our homegrown solution.
I agree, in general. My only question would be why branch 2.2 *now*?
My only concern is it might be too soon and we'll be merging more
changes from branches/2.2 into trunk than we'd like. Either way
(branch now or branch in a week or two) I agree with the above.
For 2.2 it would be nice to get jaspi officially OK and in. We
finally got the tck from sun. I haven't looked at it yet to try to
figure out how hard it will be to adapt to our tck setup or to run.
If we can get it in we can probably also get the jetty 7 integration
in. Doing this before (1) might be a good idea.
Ah. So, I'd agree with that. Sounds like we're of the same general
mind... Some general progress on the server TCK would also be valuable.
--kevan
