We recently started looking at moving from Tomcat 5.5.28 to 6.0.26 in
our development environment.
In the initial upgrade/testing of it, I have found the following that
gives me great concern.
Again, this is in a development sandbox, not a production deployment.
The environment, btw, is Eclipse 3.5, MyEclipse 8.5, Java 1.6, Windows 7.
We run our app as the ROOT context, using this context.xml, and the
appbase is set to be the developers working sandbox in the server.xml
<Context path="" docBase="" reloadable="true">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="inhouse."
suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/>
<Resource name="jdbc/rampage" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
url="jdbc:mysql://192.168.2.52:3306/Rampage"
factory="com.rampageinc.EncryptedDataSourceFactory"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
username="uuuuu"
password="ppppp"
maxIdle="5"
maxActive="50"
/>
<Environment name="company.id" value="0" type="java.lang.Long"
override="false"/>
<Environment name="site.id" value="0" type="java.lang.Integer"
override="false"/>
<Environment name="timeout.interval" value="3600"
type="java.lang.Integer" override="false"/>
<Environment name="service.jobs"
value="com.rampageinc.services.JobService" type="java.lang.String"
override="false"/>
<Environment name="service.useraccesscontrol"
value="com.rampageinc.services.UserAccessControlService"
type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
<Environment name="service.cms"
value="com.rampageinc.services.CMSService" type="java.lang.String"
override="false"/>
<Environment name="root.upload" value="C:\TempUpload"
type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
<Environment name="root.job" value="\\Winserve-2008\Clark-12-0\Rsi
Jobs" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
<Environment name="root.db"
value="\\Winserve-2008\Clark-12-0\Rampage" type="java.lang.String"
override="false"/>
<Environment name="root.preps"
value="\\Winserve-2008\Clark-12-0\Preps 5.2" type="java.lang.String"
override="false"/>
</Context>
And it loads just fine.
Here are the problems with 6.0:
1. While running, hot deploy does not work. Changes made to the app are
not picked up consistently. In specific, class file changes appear to
be missed.
2. If you stop Tomcat, change the app, and start Tomcat, the app does
not load. You have to manually delete the copied ROOT.xml from under
conf/Catalina/localhost
3. If you delete the ROOT.xml while tomcat is running, it deletes the
appbase directory. Since this is pointing to the developers sandbox...
None of these happen with 5.5 and earlier.
Since any one of these would be a full stop issue for developing under
Tomcat 6.0, this is just hitting the Trifecta of badness.
So, is it that we have missed some new configuration parameter?
This also appears to be related to Bug 47343 (introduced by 42747).
In the mean time, back to 5.5.28.
- Clark Wright.
