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Re: Dumb Question - Tomcat and GlassFish

From: Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart <pelegri_at_sun.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:15:00 -0700

We might as well get an answer for a likely follow-up question:

What functionality in Tomcat is *not* going to work in GlassFish...

  * User-level
  * Typical Extensions

        - eduard/o

Jim Driscoll wrote:
> 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
>
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