Re: [xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Servlet Container support strategy

On 21 Aug 2018, at 16:00, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: Hi devs, Right now we have: * Supported browsers: https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BrowserSupportStrategy * Supported DBs: https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DatabaseSupportStrategy But we don’t have a list of supported Servlet Containers. I think the reason is that we considered that XWiki would work on all of them. While this is true, in practice it means testing and finding the right configuration for XWiki to work on the various contrainers. Thus it requires time and testing, thus support. For example right now lots of users have trouble making XWiki work on Wildfly or Glassfish. In the past I had worked on those and documented how to make XWiki work on them but new version have come up and XWiki has changed too and seems work is needed to document. I also added some jboss-reated config files in our distribution to make it easy and work OOB for JBoss. We might need to do that for other containers or udpate those files. So IMO we should list a subset of Servlet Containers that we official support (ie. that we actively tests and update documentation, fix code when needed). Same as for DBs and browsers, the community is welcome to provide support for more ofc. For me the supported list should be for now: * Jetty * Tomcat I’m hesitating with Wildfly and Glassfish since they’re quite popular too. It would be nice to have them but I don’t think we have the manpower ATM so I would leave them to the community for now, as a best effort. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent