The main advantages of Tomcat 3.3 over 3.2.x is its performance, stability, and configurability. The improvements do lead to differences, so there is some learning involved when upgrading.
For example, Tomcat 3.2.x puts auto-generated config files for Apache, etc. in the same "conf" directory with all the other relatively unchanging config files. Tomcat 3.3 writes those files to a separate directory, "conf/auto". This allows the name of the auto-generated file to be configurable without much worry about conflicts with the name of other files. This does mean that if you go looking for mod_jk.conf-auto, you won't find it. It's "conf/auto/mod_jk.conf" in Tomcat 3.3. I don't think you will find a change that doesn't offer a benefit as the reason for the change. You can look in <http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/readme> to see the main differences documented. Look in the "IMPORTANT NOTE" part of the "INSTALLING AND RUNNING TOMCAT" section and the "NEW FEATURES AND CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE". IMHO, I think there will be less to learn (assuming you scan the documentation) upgrading from Tomcat 3.2.x to 3.3 than to 4.x. However, Tomcat 3.3 implements the Servlet 2.2/ JSP 1.1 specs, where Tomcat 4.x implements Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2. If you need the new features of the new specs, Tomcat 4.0 is the only choice between the two. Hope this helps, Cheers, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:01 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Tomcat 3.2 vs Tomcat 3.3 > > > Has anyone found any major advantages/disadvantages between > tomcat 3.2 and > tomcat 3.3? I have seen a large amount of confusion from > people that have > upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0, can this be expected with 3.3? > > Brandon > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
