> On 2025 Sep 7, at 18:21, Zoran Avtarovski <zo...@sparecreative.com> wrote: > > We are investigating the feasibility of migrating our Struts based > applications from struts 6 running on tomcat 9 to struts 7 on tomcat 11. > > We completed initial testing and came across a few issues about which I > wanted ask your advice. > > The first was we started getting errors about our DB based session management > config. We did have it set up as a JDBCStore as below: > > <Store className="org.apache.catalina.session.JDBCStore" > dataSourceName="jdbc/myDB" > localDataSource="true" > sessionAppCol="app_name" > sessionDataCol="session_data" > sessionIdCol="session_id" > sessionLastAccessedCol="last_access" > sessionMaxInactiveCol="max_inactive" > sessionTable="user_sessions" > sessionValidCol="valid_session" > /> > > This threw class not found errors and when we looked at the source we saw > there was no org.apache.catalina.session.JDBCStore class. We replaced it with > org.apache.catalina.session.DataSourceStore but weren't able to test because > of the other errors we were getting. I just wanted to confirm if this is > correct and if our change is correct?
The JDBCStore class was deprecated in Tomcat 9 and removed in Tomcat 10. The DataSourceStore class is available in Tomcat 9, so you could test with it in that version before switching to Tomcat 11. > The other and more significant issue is that some of libraries are not > configured for Jakarta EE yet. They are supplied via a government agency and > when we asked about updated jars we have been told they are a year or two > away. I wanted to check what was best practice in these types of cases. Do we > run the affected libraries through the Tomcat Migration and if so is there a > good guide to using the tool? The doc for the migration tool is in the README.md file in the binary download; links are here: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-migration.cgi If you have specific questions - or suggestions for improvement - after reading the doc, please ask them here. - Chuck > I appreciate these are very broad questions but we are at a very early stage > of the migration evaluation process and we want to determine if it is worth > continueing or waiting a couple of years as both Struts 6 and Tomcat 9 still > have a few years before EOL status.
