Michael, I don't understand where the confusion lies in the first question.
At tomcat.apache.org, you see that under "production quality releases", version 6.0.13 is listed as well as 5.5.23. If you don't need JSP Spec 2.1, then you can use 5.5.23, if that factor doesn't matter, than just deploy 6.0.13. We are currently using 6.0 in production and it is stable for our company. There is documentation available as well that describes what to do for tomcat servers running in production. Those recommendations should be followed as well. I cannot speak to the other topics. Maybe someone else can. Bryan Rood -----Original Message----- From: Michael Jouravlev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:56 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: What is Tomcat 6 status? Tomcat 6 status is not quite clear from Tomcat website. I want to use the latest possible release because we need to lock on; upgrading later down the road would incur administrative complications. Tomcat 6 docs page says that "Apache Tomcat version 6.0 implements the Servlet 2.5 and JavaServer Pages 2.1 specifications", how complete this implementation is? Should I assume that because build 6.0.13 is not explicitly marked as alpha or beta, it is a stable build? "Which version" page does not really clear things up, even more, Tomcat 5 seems like the best choice since it is stable and relatively up-to-date. Entries for Tomcat 4 and Tomcat 3 recommend to upgrade to Tomcat 5, but not to Tomcat 6. To summarize, I would prefer a most recent yet relatively stable version. From administrative point of view, it is much simpler to upgrade to a next point version than to a next major release, so I would rather start using v. 6 if it is stable enough. Any advice? I searched Tomcat mailing list for "Tomcat 6 status" and did not find anything specific. Also, do I have to download JSTL implementation libs separately? Saw these libs in webapp samples folder. Any reason why these are not included as standard libs? I understand that JSTL is just a spec, but servlets and JSPs are specs as well. The whole point in Tomcat that it _implements_ SRV and JSP specs. Why JSTL is not implemented by default? Also, what is up with JSF support? tomcat/lib directory does not provide even interface libs for JSF. Not that I am going to use JSF, I just wanted to find out what the status is. RELEASE-NOTES in the download zip file do not help much. Thanks, Michael. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
