On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 4:32 PM Ronald Klop <ronald-li...@klop.ws.invalid> wrote: > > Van: "Rémy Maucherat" <r...@apache.org> > Datum: woensdag, 23 oktober 2024 17:48 > Aan: users@tomcat.apache.org > Onderwerp: Re: deploying on 9.0.96 is painful > > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 5:37PM Ronald Klop > > <ronald-li...@klop.ws.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We pre-compile our JSPs. Team Dev uses Tomcat jars for this. And team Sys > > > keeps the Tomcat servers running and up-to-date. > > > Running Tomcat since 5.x or maybe even before. Currently running 9.0.x. > > > > > > For years it worked fine if we kept the jars versions of team Dev close > > > to the Tomcat server version of team Sys. It was very efficient because > > > versions didn't need to be exactly the same. And we could test versions > > > without doing a turn-key deploy. Occasional rollback of a deploy was also > > > possible, although the JSPs were not compiled with the exact same jar > > > versions. > > > > > > Tomcat 9.0.96 was very painful in this regard. We found the reason for it > > > in https://lists.apache.org/thread/62j98og8xn9p9ovxxj6bfqht85xg2qgz. > > > 9.0.96 JSPs didn't work on 9.0.95 and 9.0.95 JSPs didn't work on 9.0.96 > > > Tomcat. (I didn't check this personally, but trust my colleague in it.) > > > Deploy needed to be turn-key with synchronization between teams on > > > multiple clusters of servers. > > > > > > I'm not here to rant about it. Things can break. > > > But I didn't find any information about solutions on the website/ML. > > > We couldn't be sure that 9.0.97 would have a fix or just have the same > > > incompatibility so decided to push through with 9.0.96. > > > > > > Anyways, I thought it is good to give some feedback about the issue as a > > > user of the product. > > > > > > I think it would have been nice to have a statement about 9.0.96 and > > > pre-compiled JSPs and how future versions would handle this situation. > > > > > > If I missed this statement on the website or in the ML archives than I > > > will happily stand corrected. :-) > > > > > > And now we go further with development and hope that future releases will > > > be as easy as they were before. > > > > It's not possible to guarantee never having to recompile due to having > > to do fixes in the generated code (this should be rather obvious). > > However in this case it was easy to keep compatibility so it was fixed > > and the fix will be in 9.0.97. > > > > Rémy > > > > > Regards, > > > Ronald. > > > Â > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the response and the confirmation that it will be handled better > in 9.0.97.
Yes, it should be fixed in 9.0.97. Rémy > Regards, > Ronald. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
