Change name of idp-example-jetty|tomcat-base projects ?

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Mon Jul 11 11:16:00 EDT 2016


> Any objections to the use of ‘example’ in the name of the idp-example-jetty-
> base and soon the idp-example-tomcat-base projects ? 

None here.

> How about alternatives
> to ‘example’ ?

> Those projects hold Jetty and Tomcat configurations, and we use the Jetty
> configuration as part of the Windows Installer. One alternative to ‘example’ is
> ‘embedded’, but I’ve avoided ‘embedded' because from the perspective of Jetty
> ‘embedded’ means configuration via Java not XML+ini files. 

Right but OTOH we have a track record of using that word.  And given that we are adding a Tomcat one I could argue that what it means for Jetty is less important than being consistent across containers.

R



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