On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Deacon Marcus wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using (very ligthly) modified Tomcat 4.0 b5 for almost as long as it was
> out (b3 before, but I'm not sure), and found it rock-stable so far, not a
> single failure on neither development or deployment servers. While there're
> much features I would like Tomcat to have, what's already in is perfectly
> stable for me. So why have 6th beta in a row, instead of declaring b5 final
> and naming b6 4.1? That would definitely encourage more people to use it
> instead of out-dated 3.2/3.3. Hell, I have now Tomcat _beta_ running for
> about a month now (on RedHat 7.1, if you want to know), while my Windows
> _final_ with every possible service pack and security patches crashes about
> every 4 hours on average. I love you guys :) If such programmers would work
> in M$ since its begging we would had (stable) Windows XP in 1985-1990.
>
The main reason for not going final, IMHO, has been the fact that the
underlying specifications (Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2) are not final. Indeed,
I'm going to be spending time this weekend implementing a fairly recent
clarification to the servlet spec's handling of "single sign on". It
doesn't make much sense to create a final release that claims conformance
to specifications that are not themselves final yet.
We're down to weeks now ... I personally consider Tomcat 4.0 to be in
maintenance mode (with a need to improve the documentation that there are
already volunteers working on, and continued work on the web connectors
which are vital to many users). We'll open a way to begin development for
4.1 shortly.
> Greetings, deacon Marcus
>
>
Craig
PS: I hear you about Linux :-). A while back, I had the pleasure of
running an "uptime" command on a server (running Apache+JServ+other
stuff) that had been up for over a *year* with no reboots. We finally had
to take it down because the ISP was remodelling their facility. And
RedHat Linux 7.1 is my personal primary development environment for both
Tomcat and Struts.
PPS: What modifications to Tomcat 4.0-beta-5 did you find
necessary? Anything that would be useful to the general community?
