Re: Why tomcat 4 or even 3?

[John Villar]

I think you've got a point with the "afraid to upgrade".... however, i 
think that the Tomcat community should fight this way of thinking to 
minimize "maintainability", someone has to develop a side by side 
Comparative brochure of tomcat 5 benefits..... maybe i'll write one. The 
"don't feel the need to upgrade" issue is the principal "i've been 
hacked" cause..... that's another benefit of upgrading, malicious users 
have had less time to study vulnerabilities (off course, just stick with 
the stable releases).....
the only true reason someone may stop from upgrading is the last 
one..... however, pity those that depend on a specific tomcat release.....

the "recompile" problem: that wouldn't happen if you had a good software 
provider.... i'm against any provider that forces their customers to 
stick to an old dying tomcat revision.....

John Villar
Gerente de Proyectos
Computadores Flor Hard Soft 2058 C.A.
www.florhard.com

QM escribi�:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:07:52PM -0400, John Villar wrote:
: A question to everyone out there..... why does anyone use nowadays 
: Tomcat 4 branch?.....

Some more conservative shops intentionally lag behind on releases. The
reasons range from "afraid to upgrade" to "don't feel the need to
upgrade" or even "we've built a sizable architecture on an older rev and
upgrading will be a monumental effort."

: isn't tomcat 5 branch more bug free, featurefull 
: and backwards compatible?

Yes and no.  Even if the app used no features specific to Tomcat 4, you
still have to rebuild the app to upgrade.
-QM
 


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