Re: switching to 6.0 - considerable things?
So, short question: What things should be taken into consideration while moving from tomcat 5.5.20 to 6.0.x? Is there sort of a migration HOWTO for this situation, or is it just rather straightforward, having backward-compatibility and a set of new features around? I guess it really depends on what components you are using in your application. If you are using JSTL/JSF or plan to then, Tomcat 6.0.x is built according to Servlet 2.5/ JSP 2.1 spec according to this chart: http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html So, that means your project's web.xml should have the default namespace, xsi namespace and schema location to 2.5 --- this ensures proper evaluation of (Unified) EL ?xml version=1.0? web-app xmlns=http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee; xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xsi:schemaLocation=http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee web-app_2_5.xsd version=2.5 /web-app JSP 2.1 also supports Unified EL, so one can use JSF 2.1 and JSTL 1.2 in a seamless way. I haven't really tried this but have read about it in a few articles. Note that in Tomcat 5.5.x the web-app is considerably different as it conforms to Servlet 2.4 spec. The RELEASE-NOTES document , in the root folder of Tomcat 6.x covers a lot more. -Rashmi - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: switching to 6.0 - considerable things?
If it helps at all, I just moved my company's apps from 5.5 to 6.0. The only stumbling block was they rely on the invoker servlet. I changed the build process to find all classes which implement HttpServlet and add an explicit mapping to /servlet/com.mycompany.package.Servlet in web.xml. The only other gotcha is that the class loader hierarchy is different (simplified) in 6.0. Everything else just worked at that point (Apache+mod_jk, connection pools, etc.) Tim -Original Message- From: Rashmi Rubdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:49 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: switching to 6.0 - considerable things? So, short question: What things should be taken into consideration while moving from tomcat 5.5.20 to 6.0.x? Is there sort of a migration HOWTO for this situation, or is it just rather straightforward, having backward-compatibility and a set of new features around? I guess it really depends on what components you are using in your application. If you are using JSTL/JSF or plan to then, Tomcat 6.0.x is built according to Servlet 2.5/ JSP 2.1 spec according to this chart: http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html So, that means your project's web.xml should have the default namespace, xsi namespace and schema location to 2.5 --- this ensures proper evaluation of (Unified) EL ?xml version=1.0? web-app xmlns=http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee; xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xsi:schemaLocation=http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee web- app_2_5.xsd version=2.5 /web-app JSP 2.1 also supports Unified EL, so one can use JSF 2.1 and JSTL 1.2 in a seamless way. I haven't really tried this but have read about it in a few articles. Note that in Tomcat 5.5.x the web-app is considerably different as it conforms to Servlet 2.4 spec. The RELEASE-NOTES document , in the root folder of Tomcat 6.x covers a lot more. -Rashmi - 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]
Re: switching to 6.0 - considerable things?
Possible entry point: On tomcat.apache.org there is a menue point Migration Guide at the end of the Documentation menue, often overlooked, because it's relatively new and not inside the tomcat 6 docs. The Guide is very short, but might give you some ideas. http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html Regards, Rainer Kristian Rink schrieb: Folks; as there is a stable 6.0 release right now, I consider making use of it for at least part of our internal environment. Rationale for that: - Not having to install a JDK on the server machines seems a good point to me. - I want to make use of the JEE 1.5 web tier as soon as possible without being required to use glassfish everyhwere. - I want to have an eye on technology as it moves forth, and since most of the relevant applications used internally are self-made, we're not forced to stay with any old environment. By now, I just dumped one of our WAR archives to tomcat 6.0 and found it working out of the box, except for minor annoyances (most notably my application's log file not being where it was in 5.5). So, short question: What things should be taken into consideration while moving from tomcat 5.5.20 to 6.0.x? Is there sort of a migration HOWTO for this situation, or is it just rather straightforward, having backward-compatibility and a set of new features around? TIA and bye, Kristian - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching to 6.0 - considerable things?
Rainer, @list; first off, thanks everyone for your hints / inspirations, much appreciated. :) Rainer Jung schrieb: new and not inside the tomcat 6 docs. The Guide is very short, but might give you some ideas. http://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html Indeed, I could have found that myself if I only looked close enough. :) Thanks for pointing my way there, I'll see how things will end out. Thanks everyone and bye, Kristian - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
