I am in the process of moving from 4.0 to 5.0 on HPUX. So far - 5.0 has been pretty sweet, here were the worst of my problems:

(1) Bad coder karma
<%page import="java.util.*,java.io.*,"%> will cause an error with the trailing comma


(2) (more bad coder karma) Placing return statements in your JSP should be in a conditional because if not, there is a much better chance that you'll get a statement not reachable compile error.

(3) If have custom tags - there probably not tag pooling friendly, so turn tag pooling off

(4) The incremental gc option on HP blew chunks. At least thats what it seemed like when I was testing the server with that option turned on. I haven't gone through extensive tuning yet. In general, if I give enough memory to the JVM and make sure my kernel params are high enough - I stop there. Perfomance has always been nice on their servers.


Why go to 5? My main reasons ... - JSP2.0 -- EL - User defined functions in EL


JSTL has made our code sooooo much easier to read. With 5 - now I can get rid of all those <c:out> tags.



-Tim

Wendy Smoak wrote:

From: "John Villar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

A question to everyone out there..... why does anyone use nowadays
Tomcat 4 branch?..... isn't tomcat 5 branch more bug free, featurefull
and backwards compatible?
that question has haunted me from the beginning of joining this list.....


Because we're on HP-UX and they have not yet officially blessed Tomcat 5.
That, and Tomcat 4 works perfectly well, I haven't found sufficient
motivation to test everything on TC5 and start developing with the new
features yet.


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