On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:14 AM Adam Wight awight@wikimedia.org wrote:
The challenges are first that it's based on a Tomcat backend < https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM/
blob/master/src/idsrend/services/IDSrendServlet.java
,
which I'm not sure is precedented in our current ecosystem, and second
that
the code uses Chinese variable and function names, which should unfortunately be Anglicized by convention, AIUI. Finally, there might be security issues around the rendered text itself, if it were misused to
mask
content.
I'm mostly asking this list for help with the question of using Tomcat in production.
So we don't use Tomcat anywhere right now, so yeah that's unprecedented.
Just a note that Tomcat is in use by analytics as part of the Oozie-YARN-Hadoop infrastructure. It's bundled as part of the set of packages, which of course is quite a different thing than setting up and maintaining an instance generally for services.
Ariel