[jetty-dev] Need help/answers on issue in Orbit's version of org.apache.

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jetty Developers, 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but believe
that org.apache.jasper.glassfish (version
2.1.0 and version 2.2.2) were contributed "for" Jetty, by Hugues
Malphettes. 

Is Hugues still "around"?
Whether he is or not, we'd appreciate someone helping to untangle problems
caused by org.apache.jasper.glassfish versoin 2.2.2. 

See bug 442310 [1]. 

It appears it is used by an number of
Eclipse projects, and people in the community, but Jetty itself does not
use it. [2]  Though an earlier (cleaner) version of it appears in
your "release 8.x" stream. 

The problems are, roughly, it is quite
a bit different that version 2.1.0, in unexpected ways, and, frankly, appears
only "half done" or perhaps done for some special purpose, that
Jetty itself did not use it for.  Specifically, it embeds a version
of JDT compiler, making it impossible for people to use with Java 8, (i.e.
change the compiler), plus it exports "org.apache.jasper" as
"2.2.2", instead of "6.0" (or "7"?). 

So, I myself am tempted just to yank
it out of active builds, saying its an invalid bundle, and tell people
they are stuck with the old one, or transition to a solution that uses
a "pure" org.apache.jasper bundle, plus JDT compiler of their
choice (how ever that is done?)  but before taking such drastic action,
 ... wanted to first reach out to you Jetty developers to see if you
could help ... either fix the bundle in a way that would not break current
adopters, or ... maybe better, educate us on "the right" way
to solve the fundamental problem (of getting JSP support with Java 8).
I'm assuming you have "a whole new solution" in your 9.x stream
... but on the surface, I am not sure if it uses "standard" packages
from other projects, or if you have customized those other packages in
ways that you needed to for Jetty's purposes? 

Please comment in the bug if you can
help ... or ... please let us know explicitly if you can not. 

Thanks, 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=442310
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=442310#c15