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why is org.eclipse.tomcat removed? [message #224050]

Thu, 20 November 2008 08:37

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 #224065 is a reply to message #224050]

Thu, 20 November 2008 13:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: david_williams.linux.vnet.ibm.com

Jörg Kiegeland wrote:
> 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!
Probably better asked on Platform newsgroup, since they do Help, and
they controlled this server and change, but this change is documented in
the following bugs.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=138390
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173692

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