[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: general purpose server-side OSGi

[Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Kaegi wrote:
>> Hmmm, interesting. If we house the JSP runtime inside the OSGi 
>> framework, and then deploy the whole thing as a traditional J2EE
>> Web application, would we have two Web containers running one
>> inside the other?

> I think that's the danger -- slippery slope.

We solved such an issue with a solution everybody refers to as the
Tomcat Mess. It's a Tomcat running inside Tomcat/WebSphere/WebLogic.
It's ugly.

> As much as possible I'd like to leverage the appserver so that the
> servlet bridge remains a "bridge" and not a full web container. If we
> can leverge the JSP runtime of the appserver all the better however I
> suspect this is difficult.

We have OS specific fragments in Eclipse so why not having application
server specific fragments?

Cu, Gunnar

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