-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Steve,
On 1/22/13 11:59 PM, sry...@jsrsys.com wrote: > I thought you had hit the nail on the head of 5.0 vs. 5.5, but when > I recoded the short form into the long form I still get the same > error. I am ready to install a new Tomcat. Is there any reason to > NOT go to most recent 7.x release? In general, there's no reason not to upgrade all the way. I personally went from 4.1 up through 7.0 over the past few years because I wanted as few surprises as possible. I probably wasted my own time. The biggest jump for me was going from 4.1 -> 5.5 because of many configuration changes. Most of those were in 5.0 so you should have less of a headache than I did. As long as your web app doesn't rely on some weird old bug, you should be able to simply drop it into a running Tomcat 7 instance with no additional configuration and have it auto-deploy and "just work". That is, if you have META-INF/context.xml setup properly with your JNDI DataSource. Since you want a shared data source, your best bet is to put a <Resource> element (<ResourceParams are no longer required) in conf/server.xml and a <ResourceLink> in each webapp's META-INF/context.xml. I prefer the use of META-INF/context.xml because then the app generally works when you move it between container installs, rather than having some magic make it work in one place but not another. If you don't have a META-INF/context.xml, you may completely forget that the server-default links a JNDI object for you and you won't be able to figure out why it does work one place and not in another. Sounds familiar, huh? > I realize that as long as I stay at Java 5 and MySQL 5 I don't have > to worry about writing code that won't work on the production > machine (which is more difficult to change). Java 5 and MySQL 5 should be fine. Tomcat 7 actually requires Java 6, though. I believe that every system on which Java runs can tolerate more than one Java version installed side-by-side, so you might want to talk to your NOC team about installing Java 1.7 before Java 1.8 ships in November. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlEAIMQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDuPACgksD7m8kcC4PHCJLJTOHjIwX8 znQAn07eisQGFN0UZd7Yy1rnPZFu/ET3 =aNAU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
