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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:33:36 -0800
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <cmcclanahan@mytownnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Beta support for IIS and Netscape plugins for Tomcat
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rubys@us.ibm.com wrote:

> I'm just a conduit here, but in talking to a college about how he could
> best contribute to the Jakarta effort, it turns out he had experience with
> plugging servlet engines into various servers, which he would be willing to
> contribute to the cause.
>
> I've checked his initial results in with the hopes that it will spur a
> discussion.  Initially on whether this is appropriate for an Apache project
> (the PHP project is under the ASF umbrella and has support for a wide range
> of servers, and I believe that supporting multiple servers is consistent
> with the Tomcat mission to be the reference implementation).  And
> ultimately on what the final form and direction of these interfaces should
> look like.
>

+1 on including connectors for multiple web servers, as well as any other
server environment that makes sense.  It is definitely part of the Tomcat
mission.

>
> - Sam Ruby
>

Craig McClanahan