I hate to open a can of worms, but I see no other choice. Something needs to be done about features that appear and disappear seemingly randomly between versions.
Here are a few examples. Despite what the documentation says (which may or may not be accurate), these features really worked, and now don't. In TC 4.0.4, you could put <Resource> and <ResourceParams> directives in a <DefaultContext>. This is no longer true in TC4.1.24, and you are forced to put the <Resource> stuff in <GlobalNamingResources>, despite what the documentation said (and still says) in http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/defaultcontext.html In addition, in 4.1.24 you could put context descriptors (XML files describing your context) in the appBase of your <Host>, and they would load. In TC5.0.19 that feature has been removed, and you must now use META-INF or [Catalina_home]/conf/<Engine>/<Host>. I've verified this in the code. I beleive that TC5 was branched at 4.1.7. If this feature was added post 4.1.7, why did it not get integrated into the 5.0 tree? How many other post 4.1.7 features/bug fixes have been left out? No one seems to care about these loss of features. For the second loss of functionality above, I entered a bug in bugzilla which was promptly closed and I was told to RTFM. I did RTFM, and while it is confusing, it does indirectly say I can no longer do what I could in 4.1.24 (by telling me what I CAN do). No mention of this feature's deprecation or any reason why (even after I asked). Forgive me for not wanting to change my current structure, especcially since I don't see any reason why it would change. I suppose I'll be flamed for complaining about a free product, but the Apache organization, of which Tomcat is a member, is known for high quailty open-source development. These missteps seem very out of character, and I think the development team should address them, I hope that I'm not a lone in my feelings here. If I am, I'll gladly crawl back into my hole and mumble under my breath, and perhaps consider another JSP/Servlet container. Thanks for listening, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
