Hi, Running the two in parallel is not something I had thought of. I could run TC4 and TC5 and just switch back if an issue arises in testing (or production) of TC5.
Andoni. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Souther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:23 PM Subject: Re: Upgrading for the sake of it? > If you're convinced that the conditions such as your code, your > requirements, the status of the underlying system, and/or the security > of all the pieces involved (and there are no guarantees that someone > won't find a security hole in one of them this afternoon) are never > going to change then going with what you know is probably the path of > least resistance. There are lots of mainframes out there with apps > written in the 70s and 80s that are chugging along just fine. > > If not, it's easier to make incremental changes with each stable release > than to upgrade across several major releases. At a minimum, I would try > installing the latest stable releases and test your apps on them. If > your apps are spec compliant, you will probably find that there is very > little to do, if anything, to get them running on the newer releases. > > Releases come fast in open source projects so you need to figure out > what kind of an upgrade schedule best suits your business model. The > acquisition of a new server sounds like a great opportunity to consider > upgrading the whole stack, especially if it means having the opportunity > to run the two in parallel for a while before going live with it. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 06:49, Andoni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My questions here are fairly broad and open to opinion, I have not the > > experience to be dealing with these scenarios though so if you could help me > > it would be much appreciated. I do not mean to be inflammatory so if it is > > please ignore. > > > > Recently there was a post asking why people are still using Tomcat 4 instead > > of upgrading to version 5. I have been using Tomcat 4.0.4/Apache 1.3.26 for > > years and only recently upgraded Tomcat to 4.1.24. Now I am in a position I > > have never had before. I have been given a Windows server to manage and free > > reign over what to put onto it. > > > > So is the best advice to go with what I know best (and can be sure my > > websites run under) and install old versions. Or to go with the very latest > > of everything. If so then is it a good idea to keep updating Tomcat and > > Apache (httpd) or should I get one thing working and stick with what works? > > > > The answer to a previous post of mine about Tomcat 4.1.31 told me that is > > was a 'maintenance release', if this is the case then should all 4.1.x > > administrators have updated to it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andoni. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
