[Fwd: failure notice]

[Berin Loritsch <bl...@apache.org>]

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Subject: failure notice
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:48:44 -0000
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I want to get some feedback regarding the impact on the force-load 
initial parameter.
The current functionality states that Cocoon will fail to initialize if 
the required class
is not loaded.  The impact of this is that we cannot use Cocoon if the 
class does not
exist.  It is logical for things like classloader bugs in WebSphere 
where the failure
is that important.  But what about having one web.xml file that can work 
with all
vendor's products--if the class can't be loaded it moves on.

The difference being this:
In IBM WebSphere, the Servlet Initialization will still fail because it 
can't find the
cocoon.xconf file.  In Tomcat, it will log a warning saying it can't 
find the class.
The error message will be misleading because the class is either 
unneeded, or
the failure is an Unknown Protocol Exception.

vs. the current method:
IBM WebSphere will run because it has the specified class.  Tomcat won't 
until
the entry is removed.