> To make things worse, SUN also did not release adequate documentation to
> explain the differences
Yes, things are changing. The JSDK is a reference implementation, a
testbed for new servlet features, and a simple development tool.
The change that involves WEB-INF is leading to a new concept of
packaging and deployment of web applications that will be present in the
next version of the specification. Notice the difference between the
pages served from '/' and '/examples' -- they come from two different
document roots -- they allow two different areas of a webserver to be
configured independently of each other -- they allow these hierarchies
to be moved from one server to another. This will expand in the next
generation spec to allow an application composed of servlets, html
pages, jsp, and other things to be deployed at any part of the namespace
of the server. Furthermore, it is targeted right at ISP use so that end
users serving pages from ~user directories (or virutal hosted sites) can
effect servlet mappings, etc.
The default.cfg file is specified now by James Todd in a post. Wan't
multiple configurations? Use startserver -config myconfig.cfg.
Yes, exploring this territory meant changes in the JSDK. And change is
sometimes painful. This version of the JSDK was also a total rewrite for
reasons of modularity (you did check out the source file in /etc that
allows you to start up a server from any program), use in other Sun
projects, and a few other things that I can't go into detail yet (go to
JavaOne to find out). The changes were big. Documentation was light.
To be honest, the target of this release of the JSDK is to make a
reference implementation servlet engine by which all others can be
measured in terms of API compliance and to lay the foundation for the
future. Product level documentation was not possible for this release
for reasons that I should probably just term "resources" and leave be.
We are working to fix this for future releases. I will personally make
sure that the bits and pieces of documentation that have cropped up here
in the newsgroup make it onto the website somewhere.
.duncan
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