My THANKS to Craig and all other participants, including the contributers
for this milestone to happen. I am not quite ready to move on, but I will
be very *glad* to play with this once I am avaialbe to do so.
Craig, do you have any documentation plan for the installation and
configuration as well? If so, would you share with us?
Best regards,
Pae
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From: Craig R. McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.0 Beta 2
>I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Beta 2 release of the
>next generation of the Tomcat servlet container, at:
>
>http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0-b2/
>
>Tomcat 4.0 beta 2 has many new features, including:
>
>* Tomcat 4.0 can now run web applications out of an unpacked
> directory or directly from a WAR file.
>
>* Web applications are now run under the control of a Java
> SecurityManager that can support fine-grained control over each
>web-app's access to system resources.
>
>* You can now specify a <DefaultContext> element in the server
> configuration file (server.xml) that defines default configuration
>information for contexts that are automatically configured.
>
>* An example Filter implementation that supports on-the-fly GZIP
> compression for clients that support it.
>
>* A servlet that implements all of the NCSA documented
> functionality for server side includes (*.shtml) except for the
>"exec" capability.
>
>* Standard resource factories for JavaMail related resources
> accessible via a JNDI InitialContext, compatible with J2EE
> Specification requirements.
>
>* Reflects the most up-to-date changes in the Servlet 2.3 and
> JSP 1.2 APIs that have been approved by the JSR-053 expert
> group, and will appear in the next published version of the
> corresponding specifications.
>
>In addition, the following major bug fixes are included:
>
>* Fixes for two reported security vulnerabilities (a "cross site
> scripting vulnerability" plus a "URL decoding vulnerability")
>
>* The JSP servlet (Jasper) that compiles and executes JSP pages
> now uses its own classloader its associated XML parser, which
> avoids potential conflicts with parsers included with a web
> application.
>
>* Bug fix updates for directory listings, the WebDAV support,
> binding to a single IP address (if requested), incorrectly
> named access log files, URL decoding improvements, form-based
> authentication, HTTP/1.1 chunking, isUserInRole(), JSP page
> parsing problems, and many other patches.
>
>See the Tomcat 4.0 Beta 2 Release Notes (RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B2.txt)
>that are included in the top-level directory of the release for more
>detailed information.
>
>Craig McClanahan
