> -----Original Message----- > From: John Villar > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:03 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Why tomcat 4 or even 3? > > > That's true yoav, actually i live off that kind of things, > however, what > really amazes me is the messages that arrive at this list > saying "i've > just installed 4.1.x"..... the scenario you explained of > replication a > production environment on test grounds is a good approach, > but i don't > think everyone out there is deploying a test environment when > installing > the 4 branch.
Since I just posted such a message let me explain why I am installing 4.1.x. It is for a third party software the latest release of which requires Servlet spec 2.3. That is supported by TC 4 only. The vendor does not take any responsibilty that their product will work with Servlet spec 2.4, so I can't use TC 5 no matter how much I want to. Maybe this is also a question of backwards compatability of new Servlet and other specs. Just as an example: I couldn't upgrade Java to 1.4 because the third party software definitely didn't work with it, I tried. Another example is tomcat itself. I can't just replace TC3 with TC4. Essentially everything has changed. No TC3 config file will work and no conversion tool or even a proper description exists. So for real work it is not that simple to just use the latest version of tomcat or whatever. Just my 2 cents. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
