My understanding is that the beta versions are probably more stable than
other milestone releases since milestones are just the steps along the
development path. I believe beta's are released when the product is closer
to a full release.
If you have to go beyond the 3.2.1 release then it is a question of which
architecture and servlet API version you want to work with. Tomcat 3 is the
Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1
Technologies whereas Tomcat 4 is the reference for Servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2.
Tomcat 4 also uses the Catalina codebase which is a different architecture
to that of Tomcat3.
Personally, I have benefited from the cleaner separation of libraries in
Tomcat4 although I think Tomcat 3 is catching up.
I would be interested in comments from Tomcat4 developers as to when its
expected release is.
Pete Edwards
-----Original Message-----
From: Hari Yellina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 May 2001 12:32
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tomcat 4-beta 3: ready for prime time?
I am using 3.3 milestone. It is really ood. Please use it. Beta version are
not good for using.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: tomcat-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: Tomcat 4-beta 3: ready for prime time?
Hello,
A week ago I decided to switch from JRUN to Tomcat for my JSP/Servlet
environment. Naturally I started with the officially released version (3.2).
But, especially in the JSP department I found some bugs and inconveniences,
that have been fixed in later releases (3.3-milestone-x, and also 4.0).
Now I wonder, which version should I use in production? It is a stand-alone
Tomcat site for Intranet, so issues with the connectors to other webservers
are not important.
The site is low-volume (1 request per 10 seconds at prime time) but very
important, thus reliability/stability is vital.
Obviously, although 3.2 is the official release, by browsing through the CVS
logs it looks like the unreleased newer versions are of higher quality.
3.3-milestone-2 doesn't seem to have much advantage compared to version
4.0-beta3, since 4.0 seems closer to a real release (it has gone through 5
milestones already, and now seems very close to the final release after some
betas with relatively minor
changes and fixes).
What do you advice?
Peter Mutsaers
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