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why is org.eclipse.tomcat removed? [message #333026]

Thu, 20 November 2008 05:27

Eclipse User

Since we want to write test cases using an embedded Tomcat server, the
plugin org.eclipse.tomcat would be very helpful. However since Eclipse's
help system now uses Jetty instead of Tomcat, the org.eclipse.tomcat was
finally removed since Eclipse 3.4.

My question now is: does anyone remember why Eclipse migrated from
Tomcat to Jetty? maybe because it was not possible to migrate
org.eclipse.tomcat from Tomcat4.x to Tomcat 6.x?

Does anyone know if Jetty is faster compared to Tomcat (maybe this was a
migration reason)?

Or were insuperable ClassLoader problems the reason to get rid of Tomcat
? (see http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=173080)

Thanks for any ideas!

Re: why is org.eclipse.tomcat removed? [message #333033 is a reply to message #333026]

Thu, 20 November 2008 11:41

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: jacek.pospychala.pl.ibm.com

Jörg
have a look at the discussion about Tomcat here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=138390

I think that the main reason was the Jetty files size compared to Tomcat.

Jörg Kiegeland pisze:
> Since we want to write test cases using an embedded Tomcat server, the
> plugin org.eclipse.tomcat would be very helpful. However since Eclipse's
> help system now uses Jetty instead of Tomcat, the org.eclipse.tomcat was
> finally removed since Eclipse 3.4.
>
> My question now is: does anyone remember why Eclipse migrated from
> Tomcat to Jetty? maybe because it was not possible to migrate
> org.eclipse.tomcat from Tomcat4.x to Tomcat 6.x?
>
> Does anyone know if Jetty is faster compared to Tomcat (maybe this was a
> migration reason)?
>
> Or were insuperable ClassLoader problems the reason to get rid of Tomcat
> ? (see http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=173080)
>
> Thanks for any ideas!

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