I'm not trying to be a PITA, but shouldn't this thread be posted on the Tomcat-Dev list where all the Tomcat developers can join in the fun?
-T. GOMEZ Henri wrote: > > >Pier / Henri - Care to summerise the tomcat 5 flamewars and other stuff > >there? or maybe find someone else to do so? I don't have the > >time to look > >into it myself so if its gonna go in then someone else needs > >to write it. > > I'll try to summarise and Pier will make the necessary comments. > > The TOMCAT 5.0 proposal was launched by Remy. > > The goal was to design the next generation Tomcat, using > the best parts of Tomcat 3.3 and 4.x, using an improved > version of coyote (2.0) code as core, and using catalina > 2.0 as servlet container. > > The great thing in that proposal is that members from the > 2 olds teams, 3.3 and 4.x agreed on contributing and working > together putting the best they learn from 3.3/4.x. > > There was a proposal from the Avalon team to use Avalon as > core, but it was rejected by Remy, who prefer to have something > more suitable and lighter for the TOMCAT core. > > Pier then ask for a Tomcat HA (High Availability), arguing > that Tomcat 4.x (he didn't speak about 3.2 or 3.3) was too > unstable so it couldn't use it in its production site. > > There was then a lengthy discussion about stability which > should be a major goal and so on. > > Many people (tomcat-dev) reported having no problems with > Tomcat 4.0 or 3.3. > > To note, the thread was conducted at the same times that many > of us make extensive tests on mod_jk 1.2.0 and sus make huge > tests on the connector with Apache 1.3/2.0 and Tomcat 3.3/4.0.4 > to detect failure in the connector (or in tomcat), and it > appears that there was no major problems with both 3.3/4.0.4. > > As some writers commented, the stability of a web application, > depends on many parts, tomcat being one of them, the real > java application and remote side (SQL/enterprise applications) > being also mandatory. > > To summarise, I could say that all of us (tomcat developpers) > want to have the stablest engine possible and the thread is open. > > Nota, that the latest proposal is in tomcat4-head : > > <snipet> > > The major goals for Apache Tomcat 5.0 are to: > - improve scalability, reliability and performance over previous versions > - have simpler/cleaner code, so more people can get involved > - merge of the various ideas in 3.x and 4.x > - get the community togheter > - provide maximum modularity and compliance to the standards > - make it easy to continue to maintain the existing codebases > > </snipet> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
