Hi,
we have been using Tomcat in the NetBeans product for about 4 years now (since the 3.2 beta releases), so first off, Thanks! for all your great work. Tomcat provides NetBeans users with the ability to run their applications out of the box, debug in on the Java and JSP level, and generally serves as an excellent testing environment for web applications developed using NetBeans.
Now, on behalf of the Sun Developer Tools group, I'd like to propose a next release of the Tomcat 5.0.x codeline, i.e. Tomcat 5.0.28. The goals of this release would be the following:
- Continue to deliver a stable release of Tomcat in roughly 1 month intervals. One of the reasons why Tomcat is so highly valued in the community is because the time between finding a bug and deliveing the fix is very short, thanks to the short release cycles. The community appreciates the high quality of releases resulting from this release model.
- The Sun Developer Tools group would like to include into this release several bug fixes in the Jasper area, that are currently available in the trunk (5.1.x codebase), and that affect NetBeans 4.0 functionality, such as JSP debugging or JSP editor.
- The goal of 5.0.28 would be to support the upcoming JDK 1.5 release (now called JDK 5.0) out of the box, so no post-install setup steps are necessary to run on JDK 5.0. Note that in Tomcat 5.0.27, it is necessary to manually remove file common/endorsed/xml-apis.jar to make Tomcat work with JDK 5.0, see also bug report 29579 or Tomcat release notes. This not only degrades the initial experience on 1.5, but also poses problems in the multiuser scenario, when some of the users who use a shared Tomcat installation run JDK 1.4.x, and others run 1.5. (Implementation-wise, this could be done e.g. by ignoring xml-apis.jar in the classloader, when running on JDK 5.0, but there may be other solutions available.)
- Last but not least, other bug fixes present in the trunk, that are easily and safely portable to 5.0.x, should be considered.
From a codeline perspective, we are suggesting to create a Tomcat 5.0.x branch (exact name TBD) off the Tomcat 5.0.27 tag, and continue the 5.0.x development in this branch. Also, subsequent releases of Tomcat 5.0.x beyond 5.0.28 can be considered, until the 5.1 codebase reaches stability, or while there is interest in the community to continue development of the 5.0.x codebase.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
Petr Jiricka Sun Developer Tools group
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