Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?

2000-02-16 Thread Ted Neward
Does anybody else have a problem with a "production-quality" servlet engine also serving as the reference implementation for servlets and/or JSP?   I have always operated under the belief that a "reference implementation" was supposed to be plain-vanilla, no optimizations, stick-to-the-lett

Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?

2000-02-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
Ted Neward wrote: > Does anybody else have a problem with a "production-quality" servlet > engine also serving as the reference implementation for servlets > and/or JSP? I have always operated under the belief that a "reference > implementation" was supposed to be plain-vanilla, no optimizations

Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?

2000-02-17 Thread Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein
From: "Scott Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tomcat isn't really a reference implementation. It's the Apache group's > servlet implementation. Sun has chosen, for its own reasons, to select > the Apache group as its preferred servlet vendor. Calling Tomcat a > "reference implementation" is j

Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?

2000-02-18 Thread Ted Neward
m/~tneward -Original Message- From: Ronald van Kuijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Scott Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ted Neward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference imp

Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?

2000-02-18 Thread Ronald van Kuijk
But what about the watchdog part (http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog/index.html) of Tomcat then? I think it is better to develop a reference platform independently of one vendor. Sun, IBM and others are involved in Tomcat/Watchdog. Ronald Scott Ferguson wrote: > Ted Neward wrote: > > > Does an

Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation?

2000-02-18 Thread Geoff Soutter
"Scott Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Neward wrote: > > Does anybody else have a problem with a "production-quality" servlet > > engine also serving as the reference implementation for servlets > > and/or JSP? I have always operated under the belief that a "reference > > implementatio

RI vs spec (was tomcat-as-a-reference implementation"

2000-02-18 Thread Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
gt; Date:Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:05:29 -0500 > From:"Stark, Scott (Exchange)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Tomcat-as-a-reference implementation? > > I agree with this logic from a vendors perspective. Conformance should be > based on a well defined compatab