Hi, A TOMCAT_5_0 branch was created at the time 5.0.27 was released. I'm not gung-ho about making significant Tomcat 5.0 additions and enhancements, given the advanced state of Tomcat 5.1 development. If there's a showstopper, security, or spec-compliance bug than of course it will be fixed and additional releases made.
However, if you really want this strongly, feel free to submit patches back-porting the CVS HEAD patches onto the TOMCAT_5_0 branch code, and we'll look at them. As for JDK 1.5 specifically: Tomcat 5.1 will support JDK 1.5 without needing to modify anything. Tomcat 5.0 doesn't make that claim, but it does let you modify parsers as you want using the standard endorsed classloading mechanism. Of course I've already said that on the bug report ;) Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Petr Jiricka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:43 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Tomcat 5.0.28 release > >Hi, > >we have been using Tomcat in the NetBeans product for about 4 years now >(since the 3.2 beta releases), so first off, Thanks! for all your great >work. Tomcat provides NetBeans users with the ability to run their >applications out of the box, debug in on the Java and JSP level, and >generally serves as an excellent testing environment for web >applications developed using NetBeans. > >Now, on behalf of the Sun Developer Tools group, I'd like to propose a >next release of the Tomcat 5.0.x codeline, i.e. Tomcat 5.0.28. The goals >of this release would be the following: > >- Continue to deliver a stable release of Tomcat in roughly 1 month >intervals. One of the reasons why Tomcat is so highly valued in the >community is because the time between finding a bug and deliveing the >fix is very short, thanks to the short release cycles. The community >appreciates the high quality of releases resulting from this release model. > >- The Sun Developer Tools group would like to include into this release >several bug fixes in the Jasper area, that are currently available in >the trunk (5.1.x codebase), and that affect NetBeans 4.0 functionality, >such as JSP debugging or JSP editor. > >- The goal of 5.0.28 would be to support the upcoming JDK 1.5 release >(now called JDK 5.0) out of the box, so no post-install setup steps are >necessary to run on JDK 5.0. Note that in Tomcat 5.0.27, it is necessary >to manually remove file common/endorsed/xml-apis.jar to make Tomcat work >with JDK 5.0, see also bug report 29579 or Tomcat release notes. This >not only degrades the initial experience on 1.5, but also poses problems >in the multiuser scenario, when some of the users who use a shared >Tomcat installation run JDK 1.4.x, and others run 1.5. >(Implementation-wise, this could be done e.g. by ignoring xml-apis.jar >in the classloader, when running on JDK 5.0, but there may be other >solutions available.) > >- Last but not least, other bug fixes present in the trunk, that are >easily and safely portable to 5.0.x, should be considered. > > > From a codeline perspective, we are suggesting to create a Tomcat 5.0.x >branch (exact name TBD) off the Tomcat 5.0.27 tag, and continue the >5.0.x development in this branch. Also, subsequent releases of Tomcat >5.0.x beyond 5.0.28 can be considered, until the 5.1 codebase reaches >stability, or while there is interest in the community to continue >development of the 5.0.x codebase. > >Thanks in advance for your comments. > >Petr Jiricka >Sun Developer Tools group > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
