I would not remove the drop-in-war feature. Most of the times people first adopt Tomcat and then look for enterprise level features. Drop-in-war allows them to not "rip and replace" but simply adopt TomEE on their existing Tomcat farm.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:47 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > David, > > > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:29 PM David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > What do people think about dropping the drop-in-war feature in .next? > > > > It has had two use cases: > > > > - allow users to use their own tomcat version and just add TomEE > > > > - allow users to use "TomEE" in situations where they don't have access > to > > modify the server (cloud) > > > > I'm assuming you mean PaaS here, right? > > > > > > It seems we can do the first case better with the TomEE maven plugin > > (certainly a possibility if not already there). > > > > The second seems less needed these days. Jelastic has first class support > > for TomEE in their cloud. Others should learn from them. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > -David > > > > > > > > -- > > Sent from my iPhone > > > -- Karan Singh Malhi twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi
