actually no. 1.5 added many language features. 1.6 added administration and management features (and override annotation for interfaces). The jump 1.4.2 -> 1.5 will be exactly the same as 1.4.2 - 1.6.
Btw, to reply to your initial post, the memory management is really really really better in 1.5 (say garbage collector), so your management heard right things this time. regards Leon On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Chetan Chheda<chetan_chh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > We are going to regression test it in non - prod environments. I agree with > going to the latest version, but our application is only supported on 1.4.2 > So I am thinking 1.5 would be a smaller jump than 1.6. > > Chetan > > > > ________________________________ > From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:53:27 PM > Subject: Re: What to upgrade? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > André, > > On 6/10/2009 4:33 PM, André Warnier wrote: >> Save your old tomcat/conf files somewhere for future reference, then >> install the new JVM and the new Tomcat, with the standard new conf files >> for the new Tomcat. Make sure it runs with some example webapp. >> Then /manually/ introduce the needed changes to the new configuration, >> one by one, on the base of your old conf files, and check after each >> change. > > +1 > > Also, note that Tomcat 5.5 and higher really /really/ */really/* want > you to put your <Context> elements into yourapp/META-INF/context.xml > instead of putting them into Tomcat's server.xml. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkowHUcACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDyEgCeITM9GNPk8rQHNFtfRsxx8vwS > s3cAn3fBx+bijQIYPko/I3/UHam/EY6r > =p6DD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
