Hi,
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> 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.
Great news. But what exactly is shortly ? Weeks ? 2-3 months ?
>
> > 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.
Personally I could _think_ about using Linux for development, for me it's
(current versions - I agree it's changing slowly) a synonym of user-bashing
and masochism, but whatever to say about it's lack of user-friendliness and
comercial-quality docs, it's rock stable compared to every single version of
Windows from 3.11 to XP Server. Once I tried Linux for the first time for
deployment, I couldn't think of using Win32 for deployment servers again.
Probably once I learn how to do on Linux every thing I do on Win32 I'll
switch to it entirely (except for my gaming machine ;) ), but there's a long
way ahead for me ;/ .
>
> PPS: What modifications to Tomcat 4.0-beta-5 did you find
> necessary? Anything that would be useful to the general community?
I believe I posted it here, but I don't think it made it's way to CVS. It
was a dirty patch to StandardHost allowing v-host aliases in form of
'name="company.com : www.company.com , company.co.uk"', I wrote it days
before I commited another patch concerning this problem and it turned out
there's also missing stuff in xml-configurator, which I was unable to crack
since I exclusively use JDOM for XML.
Are aliases working finally in b6 ? If they are, I could just del my patch
and download b6, but I'm a bit behind the schedule and don't have the time
to check it myself.
I'm also working on making next "context" in Tomcat allowing binding objects
to all loaded web-apps at once - clear specification violation, so I don't
think it's something to share ;) , besides, it's early beta and I'm
evalutaing another options for attaining the goals it was meant to solve.
Greetings, deacon Marcus
