Konstantin - > > > 1. Have you seen the following page? > > > http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html<http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html> > > I'm getting there, I'm still perusing the change logs to see what the > major differences in between 5.5 and 6 are and from 6 to 7. The > application was written in 1.6. Despite the fact that we are a "bleeding > edge" facility, I'd still have to test and try out TC7 pretty heavily to > give it my ok. > > >2. A bad idea. > > >The recommended way is to start from default configuration and port > >necessary changes from older version (reading the docs in the > >process). >
> >3. ConnectionPool comes from Apache Commons Pool + Apache Commons DBCP > projects. > > >Tomcat 7 comes with two pool implementation. One is DBCP one (default). > > >Another is newer one, "Tomcat JDBC pool". Its documentation is > >included into Tomcat User's guide. > > >If you are satisfied with the old one, there is no need to change. > > >Anyway each connection pool instance can be configured to use > >different pool implementation independently. (Or a 3rd party pool > >implementation). > I've put 6.0.35 on a staging server and I'll be running the "feeds" I get in tandem through it to see if I get any memory improvement over the 5.5 server. So as I am thumbing through thr old 5.5 server.xml file I notice something that i've not encountered with 6.x yet. in the <Connector> declaration, there is a ciphers attribute as well as a compression one. Do these carry over to 6.x?
