case in point to everything I mentioned in [1] Community collaboration helps, design discussion helps.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9a0ce342e108cb2327c7aa277f25f095030df3e01feb682d76af2f5b@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I think I owe the community an explanation of the current situation and how > I came there. It will help everybody interested to better understand the > situation. I'll try to make it as concise as possible (not my strong point). > > For a custom project, and another custom feature which will perhaps be > contributed, I wanted to allow a signed in user on an OFBiz instance to get > securely signed in on another OFBiz instance on another domain. > > My 1st try was a failure. I made an architectural mistake due to my initial > test done locally and later using the trunk demo. Then I created another > version based on the 1st one which I believe is sound and well > architectured: OFBIZ-10307 > > Though some parts are still useful, I wanted to revert the 1st version. But > then I stumbled upon an issue which took me a moment to identify. > > 1. I wanted to revert a HttpServletRequestWrapper I put in the > ContextFilter. > 2. But when I reverted it I got a weird error saying that the userLogin > service could no longer handle an IN standard HttpServletRequest parameter > 3. I did that and found that it was due to Tomcat 8.5 using a temporary and > unachieved servlet4preview (for Servlet 4.0 preview) which hides the > standard HttpServletRequest. > 4. We have discussed that[1] and, thanks to Scott's idea, decided so far to > use the type-validate child element of attribute. > 5. Eventually we want to update Tomcat 8.5 to to Tomcat 9 (where Servlet 4.0 > is totally, and I suppose well implemented) to get rid of other possible > issues due to servlet4preview. > 6. I think we don't want to revert to Tomcat 8, but that's a community > decision > > HTH > > Jacques > [1] thread "Re: svn commit: r1827439..." >
