>For what concerns me, Tomcat 3.3 doesn't exist as an Apache Project. It
>was
>not voted upon, and it is in direct contrast with what this community
>decided.rg
I'm probably wrong, but I don't remember a vote that said Tomcat 3.2 was
a new development over Tomcat 3.1. I thought it was clear that Tomcat 3.1
was an "unfinished" work and Tomcat 3.2 was necessary step down the road
to finishing Tomcat's mission to provide an RI for the servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1
specs. In my opinion, Tomcat 3.2 doesn't finish the job. It has enough
bugs and out of spec issues that it can't claim to be a "finished" RI.
<rant>And it certainly wasn't left in a releasable state when work on
it was for the most part abandoned by most everybody back in early
summer.</rant>:-)
So for the near term, I plan to put my efforts to "finishing" the Servlet
2.2/JSP 1.1 RI. At this point, my preference is to put that effort into
Tomcat 3.3 as opposed to continuing to fix Tomcat 3.2. Though, if there
is to be only a Tomcat 3.2 release and no Tomcat 3.3, I would prefer to
not release the current Tomcat 3.2 and treat the MAIN branch as Tomcat
3.2.;-)
I think Jakarta should provide a "quality" RI for the Servlet 2.2/JSP 1.1
specs, and in the future a "quality" RI for the Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 specs.
IMHO, to release what we have now as the RI for 2.2/1.1 and say this is
as good as the RI gets, would reflect badly on Jakarta.
I admit to being selfish in this opinion. It is SAS Institute's intention
to use Tomcat with our Java IDE. SAS has enough customers that do not
jump on cutting edge technology, that 2.2/1.1 will be in use for a long
while. We have a need for a solid Tomcat 3.x implementation, both as the
RI and as a "well behaved" web server. This is where I will put my Tomcat
3.x efforts before moving on to Tomcat 4.0. Others are welcome to put
their effort where it most interests them.
Cheers,
Larry Isaacs
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