Costin Manolache wrote:
I'm sorry, but can't remember - why do we still need the endorsed ?
I tought they were a temporary solution for JDK1.4 and some validation problems - tomcat should work fine with any SAX/DOM parser, including the one in JDK1.4.
This would be good, if it's indeed possible. I just tried removing common/endorsed/*.jar from Tomcat 5.0.27, and it seemed to work ok on JDK 1.4.2_04. I didn't try any XML tags in JSTL (which often prove fragile wrt. parser configuration), but at first sight it works.
The only problem is JDK1.3 - and I agree that it would be better to just provide a patch for 1.3 ( or ask the user to install a parser in jre/ext
or classpath, to get the same behavior as in 1.4 ). Or even better -
in Bootstrap check if we're in 1.3 and add the parser to the classpath,
otherwise use whatever is in jdk ( and maybe turn validation of if the
version of jdk and parser is not the right one ).
In any case - modularizing the distribution would be really good. Having a core JDK1.5 distro, and additional packages to add JDK1.4 and JDK1.3 support is good. It would also be good to distribute more components as optional plug-ins.
I agree this is a good plan, as long as there is a way to build a single distribution that supports all the supported platforms (or at least JDK 1.4.x + 1.5).
Thanks Petr
Again - I missed a lot of discussions, probably most of this has been discussed, I'll try more searches on the archives :-)
Costin
Tim Funk wrote:
Didn't we already try that with the tomcat 4 LE edition?
-Tim
Remy Maucherat wrote:
My current idea for the new branch is to ship a JDK 1.5 bundle with a separate zip/tar.gz to easily install the additional binaries when using JDK 1.4-. This will be smaller (no JMX, no Xerces) and maybe higher quality (more testing of the bundled components ?).
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