Basically, the whiz-bang feature I want is JSP2.0
I have looked over whats on the site as they do show about 10 differences in containers, so the clustering, GC improvments, some others, I've read. I just need to justify the move of a handful of servers to tomcat 5.
Up there amongst the best reasons is availability of support. As with all OSS, you benefit by aligning yourself to the "main" trunk of development from a bug fix and *especially* forum support point-of-view.
Many (most, it seems) of the regular contributors to this list have migrated to Tomcat5, so there's less of an audience anxious to work on Tomcat4 problems.
justin
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From: QM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 3/30/2004 11:55 AM
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Subject: Re: tomcat5/tomcat4 comparison
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Neil MacMillan wrote:
: Hi all, I'm trying to gather all the information I can about pros/cons of
: migrating 10-15 servers from tomcat4 to tomcat5. I have been unsuccessful in
: finding some good performance comparisons, and major feature differences
: between the two (major)versions. Can anyone provide some links/docs for
: this?
Jokes aside, have you checked the release docs? I don't have the exact URL but they're on the website.
just a few TC5 new features/improvements that come to mind: - support for servlet spec 2.4 and JSP spec 2.0 - clustering - improved manager app (IIRC)
Unless you see some total whiz-bang feature that you've been craving, then it's a matter of deciding whether you want to upgrade just for the heck of it, or to be running the latest version. (-and that's not necessarily a bad thing.)
-QM
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