Show of hands, tomcat versus jetty for idp v3?

[Bryan Wooten]

Can someone do an ACAMP thing at Internet2 in October?

We are ready to go to V3 soon.

-bryan

On 9/2/15, 6:48 PM, "Paul B. Henson" <henson at cpp.edu> wrote:

>> From: Cantor, Scott
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 4:35 PM
>> 
>> The biggest argument I had against Tomcat is something we solved.
>>Initially it
>> was taking minutes to start up, and that turned out to be caused by the
>> implementation of annotation scanning that doesn't work well if you
>>leave the
>> warfile packed.
>
>Ah, yes, we've had a few annotation issues in the past. I vaguely recall
>having to configure tomcat not to do it on a couple of jars that were
>problematic.
>
>> I'm a major anti-unpack person, so that bugged me, but Jetty more or
>>less
>> requires almost a full unpack anyway, so they're roughly on par on that.
>
>I don't think I have a strong opinion on unpack versus not unpack, other
>than it seems kind of silly to bundle everything together into a big war
>file and then just rip it all back out again :). And it's insanely
>annoying when a webapp which doesn't have an externalized configuration
>file needs a minor tweak and you have to completely rebuild and redeploy
>the war <sigh>.
>
>> In short, I've hated Tomcat for a decade, and Jetty seems to be
>>catching up with
>> its latest release, so it's all good.
>
>There's only so much hate a body can have ;). Thanks for the update, I
>feel a little better about sticking with tomcat for staffing efficiency
>purposes now. 
>
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