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Bug 95920

Summary:	Eliminate the servlet 2.2 library and replace it with an open source approach
Product:	ide	Reporter:	Petr Jiricka <pjiricka>
Component:	Internal Server	Assignee:	Petr Jiricka <pjiricka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jtulach
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	TASK	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:	96001
Bug Blocks:	90674

Description Petr Jiricka 2007-02-19 13:27:52 UTC

Currently, the httpserver module uses the servlet 2.2 library, which is under
the Sun Binary License, so it is not open source. It should be eliminated and
replaced with an approach that does not require closed source software.

Comment 1 Petr Jiricka 2007-02-19 13:30:12 UTC

The approach will be to use the open source Grizzly container, instead of Tomcat
3.2, that we currently use. Grizzly is not tied to the servlet API, so
extensions of the httpserver module will use Grizzly adapters.

Branch httpserver_grizzly was created that contains the prototype of the
implementation.

Comment 2 _ rkubacki 2007-02-22 18:10:40 UTC

This can avoid couple of patches required to produce packages for jpackage where
tomcat sources where changed to make them usable in IDE. OTOH can brings another
problems if we do nt find package for grizzly.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Tulach 2007-02-23 09:39:33 UTC

If we do not insist on servlet API, then I'd like to propose a different 
alternative: Let's use scripting APIs. I have 50kb httpserver implementation 
that delegates to freemarker under CDDL at 
http://dvbcentral.cvs.sourceforge.net/dvbcentral/sources/httpserver/
http://dvbcentral.cvs.sourceforge.net/dvbcentral/sources/velocity/?pathrev=freemarker
I'd like to propose scripting solution like this as an alternative to grizzly.

Comment 4 Petr Jiricka 2007-06-13 14:24:29 UTC

At the end I chose a different approach. Servlet 2.2 library is included in Tomcat 3.2, which is under the Apache 1.1
license. Servlet 2.2 itself is available for download from Apache under the Apache 1.1 license - here is the source
download:

http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-3/src/jakarta-servletapi-src.zip

Every source file in this archive includes a notice that it is licensed under Apache 1.1 license, so we can just include
this library under Apache 1.1.
httpserver/external/servlet-2.2-license.txt,v1.5