Tim Funk wrote:
Sweet sweet flame fodder. Tomcat is as alive as the community of
developers that are willing to work on it (like any open source project).
I guess you could consider it flame fuel, but it's also a legitimate
question, IMO. Your answer below looks good to me.
Tomcat did take a hit with respect to Sun moving resources to
Glassfish. But in general, servlet containers are fairly "mature" and
boring and somewhat stable. Its the stuff in application space which
is where things are interesting. (Portlets, web services, and any
other marketroid buzzwords).
Tomcat is used in JBoss and the rep for Tomcat (who still does most of
the code changes to this point) to the Apache foundation is a JBOSS
employee. (Which could be good, bad, or neither depending on your
financial interests of your particular employer).
The current base is being tweaked to support the servlet 2.4 servlet
spec/2.1 JSP spec. So from a near future point of view - things look OK.
Tomcat will die when a better alternative is available and a critical
mass move to it and stop working / using Tomcat.
-Tim
Roel De Nijs wrote:
Hi,
I heard that resources, updates, development and support of tomcat
are slightly disappearing. MAny people are looking for alternatives
(e.g. JBoss). Even Microsoft and HP are cooperating with JBoss very
closely. As far as i know Tomcat is the most used app server, so it
will take lots of time to replace every Tomcat app server with some
alternative.
So does Tomcat have a future or will it die in the future?
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