Oracle9iAS Support

[Deane Sloan <De...@equinox.co.nz>]

Hi All,

I am currently working to a constraint of ensuring that our Java based SOAP
services are deployable to, amongst other Application Servers, Oracle9iAS.

Unfortunately, Oracle9iAS AWS (apache Web Server) employs JSERV - ergo
Servlet API version 2.0. Whilst Tomcat *could* be applied, potential
vendor-level support issues make this undesirable.

I have a preliminary source-modification that seems to gracefully support
both versions of the Servlet API: the 2.1+ getSession calls just needed the
optional boolean parameter set to true; a singleton is employed if it is
determined that the 2.1+ new setAttribute is not available. 

It correctly builds against 2.1, but is deployable using either JSDK 2.0(as
employed by JSERV) or 2.1.

I was wondering if others are working on such support, if it would be
"considered harmful" etc. If Oracle9iAS was anything other than a current
commercial release - I wouldn't have bothered (in light of JSERV's
"maintenance only" status).

It would be useful to gauge the potential reception of this relatively
simple modification (chances of commit) before moving forward with more
rigorous testing...

Best Regards,

Deane Sloan

Equinox Ltd
www.equinox.co.nz

Re: Oracle9iAS Support

[Scott Nichol <sn...@computer.org>]

Deane,

I have some apps still running on JServ and the 9i AS is on our radar, so I personally would benefit
from the mods.  Since there has been a conscious effort to restore JDK 1.1 compatibility, I think
there should be similar support for having JSDK 2.0 compatibility, assuming it does not hinder the
software by having to ignore a useful feature of JSDK 2.1 (which would not seem to be the case from
your description).

I am not a committer, but as a user of Apache SOAP I would like to see the change made.

Scott Nichol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deane Sloan" <De...@equinox.co.nz>
To: <so...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 07:14
Subject: Oracle9iAS Support


> Hi All,
>
> I am currently working to a constraint of ensuring that our Java based SOAP
> services are deployable to, amongst other Application Servers, Oracle9iAS.
>
> Unfortunately, Oracle9iAS AWS (apache Web Server) employs JSERV - ergo
> Servlet API version 2.0. Whilst Tomcat *could* be applied, potential
> vendor-level support issues make this undesirable.
>
> I have a preliminary source-modification that seems to gracefully support
> both versions of the Servlet API: the 2.1+ getSession calls just needed the
> optional boolean parameter set to true; a singleton is employed if it is
> determined that the 2.1+ new setAttribute is not available.
>
> It correctly builds against 2.1, but is deployable using either JSDK 2.0(as
> employed by JSERV) or 2.1.
>
> I was wondering if others are working on such support, if it would be
> "considered harmful" etc. If Oracle9iAS was anything other than a current
> commercial release - I wouldn't have bothered (in light of JSERV's
> "maintenance only" status).
>
> It would be useful to gauge the potential reception of this relatively
> simple modification (chances of commit) before moving forward with more
> rigorous testing...
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Deane Sloan
>
> Equinox Ltd
> www.equinox.co.nz
>