[arquillian-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ARQ-1853) Drop Tomcat 5.5 support

[Ian Brandt (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1853?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ian Brandt updated ARQ-1853:
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    Fix Version/s: tomcat_1.0.0.Final


> Drop Tomcat 5.5  support
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>
>                 Key: ARQ-1853
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1853
>             Project: Arquillian
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Tomcat Containers
>    Affects Versions: tomcat_1.0.0.CR7
>            Reporter: Ian Brandt
>            Assignee: Ian Brandt
>            Priority: Optional
>             Fix For: tomcat_1.0.0.Final
>
>
> I'm working on further DRY'ing up the Tomcat container code, continuing the work done in ARQ-598 and ARQ-600.  The Tomcat 5.5 managed container is the only Tomcat 5.5.x container that has been requested or implemented (per ARQ-597), and it's a bit different from the others:
> * Tomcat 5.5.x implements the [the Servlet 2.4 spec|http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html].  The earliest Arquillian protocol is [Servlet 2.5|https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ARQ/Servlet+2.5].  While the Arquillian Servlet 2.5 protocol has been shown to work with Tomcat 5.5.x, the test archives themselves should really be Servlet 2.4-based, but that introduced a dependency conflict on the Servlet APIs.
> * It's not supported by any version of Weld, which means its injection tests and related dependencies are different from those of every other Tomcat container implementation.
> I'm finding these subtle differences are introducing impediments to sharing test and POM code between this particular container implementation and all the others.  With extra effort I'm sure I can achieve some degree of reuse, and otherwise this container could just fork it's own code, but I have to question whether either is worth the trouble?  [Tomcat 5.5 was end-of-lifed|http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-55-eol.html] two years ago now.
> Short of any strong objections I propose we drop support for this container going forward to better focus on Tomcat 6, 7 and 8.  Anyone still using Tomcat 5.5 with Arquillian could continue to do so with [org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-tomcat-managed-5.5:1.0.0.CR7|http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.jboss.arquillian.container%7Carquillian-tomcat-managed-5.5%7C1.0.0.CR7%7Cjar] or earlier.



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