Just wondering what's being planned for the future of Tomcat beyond the 4.0
release (if anyone knows...). For example, are there plans to make a
release that uses JDK 1.4's "scalable I/O" features? (as both products are
currently in beta, I imagine that could be some way off!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:35 PM
Subject: RE: SAX 2.0, sealing, Tomcat 3.2.3
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Bryan Rood wrote:
>
> > Pier,
> >
> > I am interested in using a 4.0.something tomcat build.
> >
> > Are there official sources at apache that can confirm the "VERY_stable"
> > declaration that you have made?
> > My company won't let me use anything but a stable production release.
> > Is the 4.0 the same as prod quality?
> > thanks so much,
> >
>
> I'm one of the primary authors of Tomcat 4.0, so I've got some thoughts
> about this (and undoubtedly some bias as well :-).
>
> The only reason that 4.0 has not been declared final yet is that the
> underlying specifications it is based on (Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2) are not
> yet final. In fact, small changes and clarifications are still going on,
> and it would be pretty silly to declare 4.0 "final" and then have to go
> change it because the specs changed underneath.
>
> There will shortly be a "beta 7" release, to pick up the most recent
> specification-related changes. It should be considered a "release
> candidate", and development efforts between now and release day will be
> focused on bug fixes (at the moment, there are very few bugs recorded
> against Tomcat 4 in the bug tracking system at
> <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/>) and improved documentation.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
>
>
> > Bryan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pier P. Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:33 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: SAX 2.0, sealing, Tomcat 3.2.3
> >
> >
> > Andrew Cooke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't want to use 4.0 as it's beta.
> >
> > Don't worry about being a beta... It's stable, _VERY_ stable.
> >
> > Pier
> >
>
>
