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[jsr369-experts] Re: [servlet-spec users] Re: RFC7239 support

From: Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:00:56 +0100

On 16/09/2016 15:22, arjan tijms wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org
> <mailto:markt_at_apache.org>> wrote:
>
> While Tomcat now has a JASPIC implementation, I am still of the view
> that it should not be mandatory for a Servlet container to implement
> this.
>
>
> Sorry to hear that, but what would be the problem still?
>
> As far as I can see every (active) Servlet container now implements
> JASPIC, so would it not be little more than a formality now?

In short, I want to retain the option to make the JASPIC module
optional. The jury is still out on how much demand there is / will be
for JASPIC. I'd be happy to revisit this in Servlet 4.1 once we have a
better idea of the user demand. So far the demand has been very, very low.

Mark