Re: [Webwork-devel] Release - thoughts and issues

[Rickard <ri...@mi...>]

Kjetil Paulsen wrote:

> I'm really looking forward to the release of webwork but I do have some
> second thoughts on all the deployment errors showing up from different
> servers - I know most of them are probably server bugs, but I don't
> think most developers will see this, and will not be happy with the
> release if it doesn't deploy nicely to their current development server.


I agree, this is very annoying, and no it would be hard to see what's 
the real cause of these errors if all you do is deploy webwork.ear.


> We separate the actual framework and the examples - this because most of
> the 'bugs' are related to the 3rd party libs that are used - many
> containers are not happy with libs that are being deployed which already
> exists in the container, and since the 'core' probably will deploy on
> most containers, people can live with the fact that all examples doesn't
> work on their container - at least if we try make a list stating the
> issues with the most common servers. 

What would this mean, concretely? I mean, webwork.jar is already created 
as a separate jar file. Do you want two deployable .ear files? What 
would the "core" one include?

/Rickard

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