Tomcat 5.0.29 can no longer compile JSP pages when running under JDK 1.5.0! Given that 1.5.0 has been released and 5.0.28 works fine, I believe this is a serious regression in 5.0.29 that should by itself prevent it from getting a "stable" rating -- though I'd love to quickly see a 5.0.30 including a fix for this :-) [Tomcat 5.0.29 does seem to work alright under 1.5.0 if you pre-compile all JSP pages via an Ant project...]
Note that the startup environment, JSP pages, etc, are identical in both cases. In both cases I use "catalina.50.bat start". Also note that the JSP pages use no 1.5 features whatsoever -- I'm just trying to run with JDK 1.5.0. Also, both results hold both for "development" Jasper settings (fork=false, development=true, reloading=true) and "production Jasper settings (fork=true, development=false, reloading=false).
The symptom when this fails is the following console message:
javac: target release 1.3 conflicts with default source release 1.5
I am *guessing* this may have something to do with the following change log entry:
30984 <http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30984>: Added compilerTargetVM option to Jasper. (yoavs)
-- Jess Holle
