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Re: Dumb Question - Tomcat and GlassFish

From: Jim Driscoll <Jim.Driscoll_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:18:43 -0700

Jan Luehe wrote:
> In GlassFish, we've extended org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded by
> this class: com.sun.enterprise.web.EmbeddedWebContainer, which is
> our window into our version of Tomcat.
>
> As Jeanfrancois mentioned, we've extended Tomcat left and right, so
> embedding an out-of-the-box Tomcat into GlassFish will be difficult if
> not impossible.

That's actually the answer I gave as a provision guess, I'm not
surprised. Sounds like it would be a Big Deal to change our
architecture to allow it, too.

I'll have the folks I'm talking to go back and ask "why". Thanks.

Jim