On 13/03/2012 14:06, Jess Holle wrote: > On 3/13/2012 8:49 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jess, >> >> On 3/13/12 8:47 AM, Jess Holle wrote: >>> So I read that the servlet 3.1 spec (and related EL specs, etc) is >>> to go final in "the second half of 2012". >>> >>> Approximately when should we expect a Tomcat that supports the new >>> specs -- in terms of number of months after the specs' final >>> release? >> There's no guarantee of anything. Remember: everyone around here is a >> volunteer, and there's no mandated schedule. > Of course! This is an open-source community, not a commercial > enterprise. Even if it were a commercial enterprise, they get their > schedules wrong more often than they get them right! >> Here are some dates that may be relevant, but again, everything is up >> in the air: >> >> Servlet 3.0 spec finalized: December 2009 >> Tomcat 7.0.0 (beta) released: June 2010 >> Tomcat 7.0.6 (first non-beta): January 2011 >> >> Now, servlet 3.0 was a fairly big jump from 2.5 and 3.0->3.1 is likely >> to be less effort in general. As happened with Tomcat 7.0.x, Tomcat >> 8.0.x (first to support spec 3.1) is currently in active development >> and lots of little things (mostly clarifications) from 3.1 have >> already gone into the trunk. > I am hoping that the delay between 3.1 and non-beta 8.0.x isn't 12-13 > months as 3.1 is a much smaller step, but I understand there are no > guarantees. It is good to know that 8.0.x development is ongoing, though.
Try it out, it's there in tomcat/trunk. p > -- > Jess Holle > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > -- [key:62590808]
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