Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I plan to cut a "milestone 5" release of Tomcat 4.0 this coming Friday (or,
> worst case, on Saturday).
*clap* *clap*
> As a sneak preview of coming attractions, the
> following cool stuff will be included:
>
> * Initial version of the web connector for Apache
Lots of people have been eagarly awaiting this one..
>
> * Substantial performance optimizations on the
> stand alone HTTP connector
This is great stuff too!
Just so you know, I've been looking at the AccessLogValve,
and am working on getting it into shape to be re-enabled
in the default config. In the process, I'm writing a Valve
tester so we can test and benchmark Valves. It's already
running, but it's not quite ready for release yet..
>
> * Support for a JNDI naming context (like J2EE
> servers provide) even for Tomcat stand-alone.
>
> * Support for the new invocation service -- among
> other things, this lets you bind Tomcat stand-alone
> to port 80 without having to run as root!
These are nice bonuses that I hadn't yet expected. :)
>
> * The usual assortment of bug fixes.
>
> After milestone 5, I propose that we consider Tomcat 4.0 to be "feature
> complete", so that we can commence with a beta cycle, and focus on shaking out
> remaining bugs -- aiming for a final release either late December or early
> January. At the same time, we can start talking about features and
> functionality we'd like to see in Tomcat 4.1.
>
> Craig McClanahan
Sounds great!
Cheers.
--
Jason Brittain
Software Engineer, Olliance Inc. http://www.Olliance.com
Current Maintainer, Locomotive Project http://www.Locomotive.org
