Tomcat development rate.

2004-09-17 Thread David . Pawson
Since I've been watching Tomcat, it has been rapidly changing version, with some incompatibility. Are there any plans to stabilise and perhaps even consider backwards compatibility? Am I the only one looking at deployment concerns over a fast moving target? Regards DaveP. snip here

RE: Tomcat development rate.

2004-09-17 Thread Dale, Matt
a good arguement to upgrade. Ta Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 September 2004 08:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat development rate. Since I've been watching Tomcat, it has been rapidly changing version, with some incompatibility

RE: Tomcat development rate.

2004-09-17 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, Is there any particular incompatibility that concerns you? I have been using the same apps basically from an early version of 4 with no changes required to upgrade other than small changes to web.xml etc to fall in line with the newer servlet specs which tomcat has to follow and is not in

Re: Tomcat development rate.

2004-09-17 Thread John Villar
Yep there are lots :-D David, as long as you adhere to the servlet specification, there won't be any problems at all (off course, there's always a glitch here and there). I think servlets have been sufficiently backwards compatible until now, however, that's my opinion (i started using

RE: Tomcat development rate.

2004-09-17 Thread David . Pawson
-Original Message- From: John Villar Yep there are lots :-D David, as long as you adhere to the servlet specification, there won't be any problems at all (off course, there's always a glitch here and there). The service provided to customers is

Re: Tomcat development rate.

2004-09-17 Thread John Villar
Well my friend, that's the open source way to software, remember release early, release often is the motto. If you problem is the mainteinance costs, stick to some stable release. John Villar Gerente de Proyectos Computadores Flor Hard Soft 2058 C.A. www.florhard.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]