> Notice that I didn't ask a question JOEL BERGMAN (are you a Jakarta
> developer).
I didn't realize that:
>> I know the reason for this list - at least as it applies to Jakarta.
>> It is meant to address the complete lack of adequate documentation
>> for tomcat.
was a private message for the developers. It seemed to be a blanket
complaint from an apparently annoyed person.
> I have been disappointed and frustrated by the **** that
> is called documentation. I stopped trying to get tomcat
> to work properly over a year ago. Recently I looked into
> it again, and noticed little to no improvement.
So what problems are YOU having?
> I rate software on three important criteria: does it do what it is
> intended, can it be used easily, and is it maintainable.
I could show you messages from me over the past however long I have been on
the 'net where I express a view that most Open Source projects are written
by the cognoscenti for the cognoscenti with little concern for real people.
Most of them get to a point where they satisfy the parochial needs of their
developers, and then stagnate.
Tomcat is not such a project. It is the reference platform for key Java
technologies. As such, perhaps the developers are prioritized more towards
developing a technical reference than end-user supporting documentation.
None of the issues I've had with Tomcat, so far, are basic installation
issues. A year ago, I agree, the situation with connectors was chaotic at
best. I have an entire mail folder devoted solely to capturing information
about connectors.
> I can't get [tomcat] to work with a reasonable amount of effort.
Took me a few minutes from scratch. YMMV. What ARE you trying to do?
Where are you running into issues? Tomcat standalone, tomcat with apache,
tomcat with a data source?
--- Noel
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