Author: remy.maucherat(a)jboss.com Date: 2010-05-07 07:46:42 -0400 (Fri, 07 May 2010) New Revision: 1467 Modified: trunk/BUILDING.txt trunk/RELEASE-NOTES Log: - Cleanup. Modified: trunk/BUILDING.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/BUILDING.txt 2010-05-07 11:46:06 UTC (rev 1466) +++ trunk/BUILDING.txt 2010-05-07 11:46:42 UTC (rev 1467) @@ -105,20 +105,8 @@ cd ${jboss-web.source} ant -(5) Building the Servlet and JSP API documentation +(5) Building EL parser with JavaCC 4.1+: -The documentation can be easily built: - - cd ${jboss-web.source} - ant -f dist.xml dist-javadoc - -(6) Building a release running tests: - - cd ${jboss-web.source} - ant -f dist.xml release - -(7) Building EL parser with JavaCC 4.1+: - Download JavaCC 4.1+ export JAVACC_HOME=/somepath/javacc-4.1 export PATH=$JAVACC_HOME/bin:$PATH Modified: trunk/RELEASE-NOTES =================================================================== --- trunk/RELEASE-NOTES 2010-05-07 11:46:06 UTC (rev 1466) +++ trunk/RELEASE-NOTES 2010-05-07 11:46:42 UTC (rev 1467) @@ -4,23 +4,6 @@ Release Notes -============================= -KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE: -============================= - -* Dependency Changes -* JNI Based Applications -* Bundled APIs -* Web application reloading and static fields in shared libraries -* Tomcat on Linux -* Enabling SSI and CGI Support -* Security manager URLs -* Symlinking static resources -* Enabling invoker servlet -* Viewing the Tomcat Change Log -* When all else fails - - =================== Dependency Changes: =================== @@ -57,43 +40,6 @@ during the lifetime of a particular JVM. -============= -Bundled APIs: -============= -A standard installation of JBoss Web makes all of the following APIs available -for use by web applications (by placing them in "common/lib"): -* el-api.jar (EL 2.1 API) -* jsp-api.jar (JSP 2.2 API) -* servlet-api.jar (Servlet 3.0 API) - -In server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar you will find -* jbossweb.jar which contains most of the JBoss Web classes. -* jstl.jar jstl classes. -* jasper-jdt.jar (Eclipse JDT 3.2 Java compiler) - -You can make additional APIs available to all of your web applications by -putting unpacked classes into a "classes" directory (not created by default), -or by placing them in JAR files in the "lib" directory. - -To override the XML parser implementation or interfaces, use the endorsed -mechanism of the JVM. The default configuration defines JARs located in -"endorsed" as endorsed. - - -================================================================ -Web application reloading and static fields in shared libraries: -================================================================ -Some shared libraries (many are part of the JDK) keep references to objects -instantiated by the web application. To avoid class loading related problems -(ClassCastExceptions, messages indicating that the classloader -is stopped, etc.), the shared libraries state should be reinitialized. - -Something which might help is to avoid putting classes which would be -referenced by a shared static field in the web application classloader, -and putting them in the shared classloader instead (JARs should be put in the -"lib" folder, and classes should be put in the "classes" folder). - - ============================= Enabling SSI and CGI Support: ============================= @@ -101,16 +47,6 @@ attributes documentation for more details. -====================== -Security manager URLs: -====================== -In order to grant security permissions to JARs located inside the -web application repository, use URLs of of the following format -in your policy file: - -file:${catalina.home}/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/lib/driver.jar - - ============================ Symlinking static resources: ============================ @@ -121,19 +57,6 @@ the check. -========================= -Enabling invoker servlet: -========================= -Starting with Tomcat 4.1.12, the invoker servlet is no longer available by -default in all webapps. Enabling it for all webapps is possible by editing -$CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml to uncomment the "/servlet/*" servlet-mapping -definition. - -Using the invoker servlet in a production environment is not recommended and -is unsupported. More details are available on the Tomcat FAQ at -http://tomcat.apache.org/faq/misc.html#invoker. - - ================================ Viewing the JBoss Web Change Log: ================================