+1 on Jetty. I have no experience with it, but I like the idea of having a
stand-alone product again, especially since we can rely on another projects
help. This still leaves the server as flexible as it is now.
Kurt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gianugo Rabellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Bundle Jetty with Xindice. How about it?
> Vladimir R. Bossicard wrote:
> > So now for the proposal: is it OK to you if I commit the Jetty
> > support in CVS? We grow by 700KB, but we gain IMHO a hell of a lot
> > in flexibility.
> >
> >
> > My opinion (since you asked for it...)
> >
> > - no to commit Jetty into cvs (we don't have Tomcat in cvs, wo why
> > having Jetty?)
>
> Well:
>
> 1. we used to have Juggernaut in the past for the CORBA stuff. eXist
> ships, IIRC, with Tomcat, Cocoon and Forrest ship with Jetty, Slide
> ships with Tomcat: if you need an application server *and* you're not
> (just) a web application IMHO it makes a a lot of sense to embed a
> lightweight application server.
>
> 2. users. I can already imagine people wondering why on earth Xindice
> has to be a webapp in order to be accessed from the network. In fact,
> actually, Xindice has *always* been a web application: 1.0 is running
> with an HTTP server as well, but it's an embedded one. Users didn't
> really complain then since it was all gracefully tied together.
> Embedding an application server might ease *a lot* the migration path:
> think about shipping by default with Jetty configured on port 4080,
> which used to be the Xindice port in the past... think about having a
> "start" and "stop" command lying around Xindice, with the feeling of a
> standalone environment and without a need to download, set up, install
> your own Tomcat/Jetty/whatever. All this for a mere 700KB lying under
> the /tools directory (not messing up with the general /java/lib): looks
> a good deal to me. :-)
>
> 3. developers. My productibity with Jetty is now orders of magnitude
> greater. Just "build run" and everything is recompiled and started
> automagically, in *seconds* by Jetty (not in *minutes* by Tomcat). And
> think about your nightly test (cool stuff!) being run automatically by
> Gump...
>
> Isn't all this worth 700KB? ;-)
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> Gianugo
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