If it helps at all, I just moved my company's apps from 5.5 to 6.0. The only stumbling block was they rely on the invoker servlet. I changed the build process to find all classes which implement HttpServlet and add an explicit mapping to /servlet/com.mycompany.package.Servlet in web.xml.
The only other gotcha is that the class loader hierarchy is different ("simplified") in 6.0. Everything else just worked at that point (Apache+mod_jk, connection pools, etc.) Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Rashmi Rubdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:49 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: switching to 6.0 - considerable things? > > > So, short > > question: What things should be taken into consideration while moving > > from tomcat 5.5.20 to 6.0.x? Is there sort of a "migration HOWTO" for > > this situation, or is it "just" rather straightforward, having > > backward-compatibility and a set of new features around? > > > > I guess it really depends on what components you are using in your > application. > > If you are using JSTL/JSF or plan to then, Tomcat 6.0.x is built > according to Servlet 2.5/ JSP 2.1 spec according to this chart: > http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html > > So, that means your project's web.xml should have the default > namespace, xsi namespace and schema location to 2.5 --- this ensures > proper evaluation of (Unified) EL > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee web- > app_2_5.xsd" > version="2.5"> > > </web-app> > > JSP 2.1 also supports Unified EL, so one can use JSF 2.1 and JSTL 1.2 > in a seamless way. I haven't really tried this but have read about it > in a few articles. > > Note that in Tomcat 5.5.x the web-app is considerably different as it > conforms to Servlet 2.4 spec. > > The RELEASE-NOTES document , in the root folder of Tomcat 6.x covers a lot > more. > > -Rashmi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]