What do you mean an app running on 4.x may not work on 5.0.x? Is this only because of changes in the JSP spec, and older 1.2 is not compatible with the 2.0 spec?
Daniel Gibby
Tim Funk wrote:
If that is the case, it will be a loooong time until there will be a tomcat 5.1. Since tomcat 5 went through so many public betas and originated from fairly stable tomcat 4.1 code - the quality tomcat 5 "stable" release is quite good. There weren't really any showstoppers requiring a quick minor release. (Kudos to Remy!)
There was a discussion about tomcat 5.1, but there aren't really any reasons to branch to 5.1 as compared to just enhancing the 5.0 branch.
5.0.17 should be tagged very soon from talk on the dev list.
-Tim
epyonne wrote:
As a general rule of thumb, version X.0 always has some problem. You have
to wait till version X.1 or X.2 to have most of the bugs fixed.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Gibby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 03:06 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.1.29 versus Tomcat 5
Sorry about that last reply that had no message body..
Anyway, what about reliability, do you people who use the later versions
of 5.0.x find it as reliable as 4.1.x?
Thanks,
Daniel Gibby
Remy Maucherat wrote:
Daniel Gibby wrote:
Does anyone have a synopsis of reasons to move to or not to move to Tomcat 5 from tomcat 4?
I've seen various reasons that moving will be beneficial, including better session-replication support, and manager application improvements, but how does 5.0 stand up as far as reliability is concerned? I'm usually a little gun-shy at upgrading to anything until most of the bugs are worked out. It could cost me thousands of dollars a day to have my web apps be down.
First, you have to make sure your webapps run. You never know.
Then, TC 5 vs 4.1.29: - is faster and generally more optimized - has nice server monitoring - has plenty of cleanups and small refactorings, to fix some of the more complex 4.1.x bugs - has JSP 2.0 (you may not care, but JSPs are actually nice now)
Note: 4.1.29 and 5.0.16 use the same connectors, so reliability of the HTTP (or AJP) handling will be identical.
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