Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Petr Sumbera <Petr.Sumbera at sun.com> wrote: >> Sriram Natarajan wrote: >>> - Why tomcat 5.5 rather than 6.0 when 6.0 is compliant with the latest >>> JSP/Servlet spec >> This is valid point. I was thinking of doing upgrade later. Or to have >> there both versions. But I believe there is no reason to have there two >> versions, am I right? > > Not necessarily. Is any application that worked under 5.5 guaranteed > to work unchanged under 6.0?
Not for 100% but it's very likely. See: http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=122159499330224&w=2 > I don't actually know, but I do know that previous changes to tomcat > versions broke applications. I'm still supporting 4.0 and 4.1 in addition > to 5.5, and my suggestions that we start investigating 6.0 in new projects > haven't yet been taken up. I'm pretty aware of incompatibilities between 4.0 and 4.1.I believe this is not case between 5.5 and 6.0 (even if it's major release). > Generally, upgrading application components is hard and time consuming. > I usually find it much harder than upgrading the underlying OS. Petr
