Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-12 Thread Chetan Chheda
From: David Kerber dcker...@verizon.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:58:37 PM Subject: Re: What to upgrade? Chetan Chheda wrote: We are going to regression test it in non - prod environments. I agree with going to the latest

RE: What to upgrade?

2009-06-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Chetan Chheda [mailto:chetan_chh...@yahoo.com] Subject: Re: What to upgrade? I reduced it to -Xmx1024m -Xms1024m -Xmn400m and was able to startup. Is there a heap size limitation? What platform are you running on? Is this a 32- or 64-bit JVM? In a 32-bit environment, somewhere

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-12 Thread David kerber
From: David Kerber dcker...@verizon.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:58:37 PM Subject: Re: What to upgrade? Chetan Chheda wrote: We are going to regression test it in non - prod environments. I agree with going to the latest version

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-12 Thread Chetan Chheda
To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:11:44 AM Subject: RE: What to upgrade? From: Chetan Chheda [mailto:chetan_chh...@yahoo.com] Subject: Re: What to upgrade? I reduced it to -Xmx1024m -Xms1024m -Xmn400m and was able to startup. Is there a heap size limitation

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Mark Thomas
Chetan Chheda wrote: Our management has directed us to upgrade our JRE to 1.5 from 1.4.2 because they have heard that 1.5 has better memory management features. I am doing my due diligence to present a plan on what it will take to get us there. The question is how do I approach this ...

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Chetan Chheda wrote: ... Disclaimer : The following statements are to be taken in a banking perspective (past bonuses are no guarantee for future ones); each situation is slightly different; my own Tomcat applications are not very sophisticated; my servers are not highly loaded; YMMV. Having

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Jonathan Mast
I just completed (last week actually) a migration from JDK 1.4.2/Tomcat 5.5 to JDK 1.6/Tomcat 6. In terms of backward-compatibility, we had a problem with our TagLib packages. They would not compile under with whatever version of the Servlet Spec accompanies JDK 1.6. Those were the only

RE: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Chetan Chheda [mailto:chetan_chh...@yahoo.com] Subject: What to upgrade? Our management has directed us to upgrade our JRE to 1.5 from 1.4.2 because they have heard that 1.5 has better memory management features. I'll strongly reiterate what André mentioned: if you're moving up JVM

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 6/10/2009 4:33 PM, André Warnier wrote: Save your old tomcat/conf files somewhere for future reference, then install the new JVM and the new Tomcat, with the standard new conf files for the new Tomcat. Make sure it runs with some example

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Chetan Chheda
...@christopherschultz.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:53:27 PM Subject: Re: What to upgrade? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 6/10/2009 4:33 PM, André Warnier wrote: Save your old tomcat/conf files somewhere for future reference

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Leon Rosenberg
supported on 1.4.2 So I am thinking 1.5 would be a smaller jump than 1.6. Chetan From: Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net To: Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:53:27 PM Subject: Re: What to upgrade

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Let me add some non-technical and subjective advice. I have kind of collected the impression over time here, that going from tomcat 5.5 to 6.x introduced at least some additional issues. (This being said totally subjectively by someone who does not really know what he's talking about, but just

RE: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: Re: What to upgrade? Have I qualified for a government or consultancy job yet ? Only for the not quite gone Mr Brown's cabinet... - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: Re: What to upgrade? Have I qualified for a government or consultancy job yet ? Only for the not quite gone Mr Brown's cabinet... I realise a posteriori that I should have qualified the previous advice

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread David Kerber
Leon Rosenberg wrote: actually no. 1.5 added many language features. 1.6 added administration and management features (and override annotation for interfaces). And they both added big performance improvements over older ones. D

Re: What to upgrade?

2009-06-10 Thread David Kerber
Chetan Chheda wrote: We are going to regression test it in non - prod environments. I agree with going to the latest version, but our application is only supported on 1.4.2 So I am thinking 1.5 would be a smaller jump than 1.6. I doubt it. If it will run on 1.5 (which it most likely will),