I've seen a few requests to fix items in the jakarta-servletapi-* workspaces and wanted to clear up any confusion there might be.
Changes to examples in these workspaces are fine.
However, ANY changes to the core APIs (including even simple javadocs changes) CANNOT be done outside of the JCP process. This applies to both Servlet and JSP APIs.
To make any changes to these APIs, you must propose the change through the spec aliases, which appear on the front covers of the corresponding specifications:
Servlet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JSP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Your change request will be considered by the specification leads and potentially debated by the expert group. Changes to the APIs can only be done in a maintenance release of the specification, or in the next revision of the specification. The Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications have both been finalized for this release of Tomcat and are very unlikely to change in any substantial way until the next release.
Please understand that Tomcat is only one of many containers that are implementing the Servlet and JSP specifications, and the APIs must match identically on all containers.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions on this matter.
Thank you for your cooperation.
--- Mark Roth, Java Software JSP 2.0 Co-Specification Lead Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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