Tomcat v6 game plan

This page outlines the game plan for integrating tomcat v6 into Geronimo2.0

Stage 1 - update specs

Tomcat v6 has the following spec dependencies

• geronimo-servlet_2.5_spec
  • already in geronimo/specs/trunk
• geronimo-annotation_1.0_spec
  • already in geronimo/specs/trunk
• geronimo-jsp_2.1_spec
  • copy from https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/javax/servlet/jsp/
• geronimo-el
  • copy from https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/java/javax/el/

Get all these specs published to a maven repo

Stage 2 - update modules and configs

• request tomcat dev team to publish 6.0.2 beta artifacts in a maven repository
  • http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41093

• build tomcat v6.0.2 beta locally and publish in a temporary m2 repo
  • http://people.apache.org/~pmcmahan/maven2/
  • use groupid "tomcat6" to avoid maven bug (I suspect MNG2340)
  • used groupid org/apache/tomcat

• modules/geronimo-tomcat
  • add repository http://people.apache.org/~pmcmahan/maven2/ to pom
    • this will be removed when tomcat publishes v6 artifacts
  • update pom to use tomcat 6.0.2 beta jars
  • remove outdated clustering (o.a.g.tomcat.cluster)
  • update resources in src/main/resources/META-INF/geronimo-tomcat/var/catalina
  • update dependencies in src/main/resources/META-INF/geronimo-dependency.xml
  • update test cases

• modules/geronimo-tomcat-builder
  • remove outdated references to clustering support
  • update src/main/schema
  • update test cases

• configs/tomcat
  • add repository http://people.apache.org/~pmcmahan/maven2/ to pom
    • this will be removed when tomcat publishes v6 artifacts

• configs/webconsole-tomcat
  • remove dependencies on jasper-runtime from pom.xml and plan.xml

• configs/jee5-specs
  • create this based on configs/j2ee-1.4-specs
  • point rmi-naming at jee5-specs instead of j2ee-1.4-specs

• configs/tomcat-deployer
  • update pom.xml to use new web25-builder

• cursory test of admin console

• test cases
  • add new unit test for servlet 2.5 to geronimo-tomcat
  • test deployment of 2.5 WAR from command line and admin console
  • test bringup of tomcat-minimal and jetty6-jee5 assemblies

Geronimo 2.0 milestone build – Dec 23

Stage 3 - update builder

• modules/geronimo-web-builder
  • Merge webmodule-builder changes from sandbox/jee5 branch
• modules/geronimo-tomcat-builder
  • add support for annotations
  • updated schema

• test & fix as necessary
  • deploy/undeploy WAR
  • deploy/undeploy EAR containing WAR
  • geronimo welcome
  • JSP and servlet example plugins
  • geronimo admin console

Stage 4

• use updated jspc maven plugin (JSP 1.2 support)

• remove unnecessary reference to jasper-runtime from poms using jspc-maven-plugin
  • console
  • demo
  • ca-helper
  • jsp-examples
  • ldap-demo
  • remote-deploy
  • uddi-server
  • welcome
  • magic GBall

Stage 5

• replace clustering support removed in Stage 2 with catalina-ha
  • TBD how does Jeff's clustering work affect this?

Stage 6

• add integration tests