Bob Herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 13:23, Remy Maucherat wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I have been hinting at rewriting the main Catalina mapper for Tomcat 5. >> >>The proposal is designed to improve performance, avoid generating >>uneeded garbage String objects, and optimize the welcome files processing. > > > FYI, The 2.4 spec seems to allow servlets to handle "welcome file" > processing too. Not sure I understand this completely, but I am looking > into it (with an eye towards implementing something to satisfy the 2.4 > Spec's servlets as providers of "welcome" files. Perhaps welcome page > would be better than 'welcome file.', but I digress)
Yes, but welcome files for non physical resources cannot be implemented (since you have no way of asking a servlet if it can or cannot process a resource). I'll implement something which works and which is very close to what the spec requires. Again, I have sent many messages to the spec leads about this issue without any result, so I give up ... Remy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
