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Re: [servlet-dev] Less is More for servlet 6.0
Hi,

It's a long post, and I haven't read it in detail either, but at a glance I like the overall tone of it. I'd especially like to see the cross-context feature go.

On that, there's still a TCK test around that concept that I think should be challenged (getContext() is allowed to return a null, but there's a TCK test that assumes it's never null).

Kind regards,
Arjan Tijms










On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:41 PM Mark Thomas <markt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 13/04/2021 07:27, Greg Wilkins wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I've just published a blog called Less is More
> <https://webtide.com/less-is-more-servlet-api/> where I make the
> argument that we need to remove and/or deprecate several features in the
> servlet specification for 6.0, so that we can clear the decks for new
> features.
>
> I won't repeat the blog here (it's rather long), but as discussion of
> the spec should be here, I will direct commenters to this thread.

I haven't had a chance to review the article in detail so I'll just say
I think there is going to be quite a bit of discussion around exactly
what should be removed and what should stay.

I need to get a draft release plan submitted today for the next
development iteration so I am going to submit one for a major release
(6.0) rather than a minor release (5.1) on the basis that whatever we do
I am fairly sure we are going to want to make backwards incompatible API
changes. Whether that is as little as removing the code that has been
deprecated for well over a decade or as much as Greg is advocating for
is very much TBD but we have time to discuss that.

I'm going to keep the plan very high level. Essentially:
- remove deprecated features
- consider removing / deprecating additional features
- add clarify to existing features
- implement requested enhancements

Prioritisation to be determined by the community as work progresses.

Mark
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