Re: [slightly OT] Tomcat for Dummies

2009-03-14 Thread André Warnier
To the people who have indicated their appreciation for the thread so far : I may have provided the pretext and the questions, but the answers were not mine. So don't forget Mark and Chuck and Chris and Peter and Ken and others. They are the non-dummies who wrote the intelligent stuff. Since th

Re: [OT] Tomcat for Dummies

2009-03-13 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 3/13/2009 1:25 PM, André Warnier wrote: > But for instance the following kind of snippet, while undoubtedly > looking simple and elegant to any confirmed Java servlet programmer, in > the eyes of this beholder is not any better : > > this

Re: [OT] Tomcat for Dummies

2009-03-13 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: > Oh, sorry. As you certainly surmised, I wasn't being serious, and was in fact fishing for some reaction. Perl is a "write-only" language (meaning that nobody can ever read a perl script after the fact). I like that one. Let me offer another one, popular in perl g

Re: [OT] Tomcat for Dummies

2009-03-11 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: [...] That should be handled by a ServletContextListener declared in WEB-INF/web.xml, which will be invoked before the deletion of the webapp's files. At the risk of sounding heretical and tasteless on this forum, I must admit that this whole Java and Tomcat thing