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Re: Re: switch from Jetty to Tomcat

by Graeme Rocher-3 :: Rate this Message:

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Marcus Better<marcus@...> wrote:

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> Robert Fischer wrote:
>> Tomcat is probably the dominant deployment environment for Grails, an
>> argument can be made that making the dev and production environments
>> mirror each-other closely is important (search grails-user for Tomcat to
>> see hints at that).
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> That does not sound too convicing to me, but so far it is the only reason
> that has been advanced for any possible benefit to Grails users of this
> switch.

Its a very sound reason, people often complain about differences
between dev and production due to this. You probably don't see it
because you're not at the end of the support requests ;-)

Anyway folks shouldn't panic, Jetty is not going away. We will still
make the Jetty implementation available as a plugin for backwards
compatibility and any server product can write their own plugin for
Grails.

Cheers

>
>> I harbor a deep suspicion that this has something to do with it, too:
>> http://www.springsource.com/products/tcserver
>
> That is a natural conclusion from the information presented so far. The
> benefit to SpringSource is clear, but the benefit to Grails users is much
> less clear, as are the technical reasons for this change.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus
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