I'd just like to say thank you to you for posting here. It's immensely useful for a newbie like me.
Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: what is catalina?.. > > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Bill Barker wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:44:14 -0800 > > From: Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: what is catalina?.. > > > > Catalina is also the name of a small island off the coast of southern > > California. I, personally, have no idea why this was chosen as a package > > name (I haven't been hanging out here that long). Especially since the > > principal author doesn't live in So. CA. > > > > Bill's right about "Jakarta". Using "Catalina" was my idea, because I > wrote most of the original code that became it. The reasons are mundane, > but here they are for the record: > > * Even though I don't live in Southern CA, I've always liked > what I've read and seen of Catalina Island. > > * One of the towns on the island is Avalon, and we were (at the > beginning) considering using the Avalon Framework > (http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/) for the internal architecture. > It would have been a cute tie-in, but alas it didn't happen > that way. > > * When I'm coding, I regularly have one or more cats wandering > around my lap and adding to the whitespace when they don't > think I put enough (you don't need fingers to press the space bar :-). > > Another "code name" you'll hear in the Tomcat world is Jasper -- that's > the name of the JSP page compiler part of Tomcat. That name was carried > over from even before my time, but I'm sure it probabbly came from the > alliteration (JaSPer). > > Craig McClanahan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
