On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 4:00 PM, 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
At least this list would make official what is the current situation
which is not bad.
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
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Thomas Mortagne