Building 3.2

[James Cook <ji...@iname.com>]

How does a developer go about building the "best" source code for what will be
Tomcat 3.2 Final? I downloaded the jakarta-tomcat module tagged with "tomcat_32"
and it is ripe with errors. Classes that should be interfaces that are not, 100s
of errors, and so on.

Just trying to work with something that may be considered stable, yet has most
of the fixes. Are Remy's "beta" builds available anywhere?

jim

Re: Building 3.2

[Geoff Soutter <ge...@whitewolf.com.au>]

Ah, thanks for that, Costin.

geoff

----- Original Message -----
From: <cm...@yahoo.com>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: Building 3.2


>
> > On this topic kind of, what exactly _is_ the difference between 3.2 and
3.3
> > anyway?
>
> 3.3 is the development version. 3.2 is the stable one, where only
> (important and safe) bug fixes goes in.
>
> So far in 3.3:
> - improved performance ( in some tests it is 1.5 .. 2x over 3.2)
> - start of i18n ( charset support and guessing )
> - start of Servlet 2.3 ( facade23, compilation )
> - improved security ( use of URLClassLoader, tighten up everything)
> - improved reloading ( DependManager )
> - improved startup ( including separated classpaths for webserver and
> applications, ability to override the parser)
> - few major refactorings ( to achieve cleaner demarcation of componenets,
> better code organization )
> - reduced GC ( even more compared with 3.2 - so far about 8..20k less
> GC memory  per request - as reported by OptimizeIt )
>
> I think that's all so far, but I'm sure more ideas will show up :-)
>
> Probably when it'll be ready it will have at least:
> - support for non-ascii charsets ( I18N )
> - better performance
> - better code
>
> And I hope for full servlet2.3 ( as an optional package, 2.2 will still be
> the stable and tested one ).
>
> Costin
>
>
>
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Re: Building 3.2

[cm...@yahoo.com]

> On this topic kind of, what exactly _is_ the difference between 3.2 and 3.3
> anyway?

3.3 is the development version. 3.2 is the stable one, where only
(important and safe) bug fixes goes in. 

So far in 3.3:
- improved performance ( in some tests it is 1.5 .. 2x over 3.2)
- start of i18n ( charset support and guessing )
- start of Servlet 2.3 ( facade23, compilation )
- improved security ( use of URLClassLoader, tighten up everything)
- improved reloading ( DependManager )
- improved startup ( including separated classpaths for webserver and
applications, ability to override the parser)
- few major refactorings ( to achieve cleaner demarcation of componenets,
better code organization )
- reduced GC ( even more compared with 3.2 - so far about 8..20k less
GC memory  per request - as reported by OptimizeIt )

I think that's all so far, but I'm sure more ideas will show up :-)

Probably when it'll be ready it will have at least:
- support for non-ascii charsets ( I18N )
- better performance
- better code

And I hope for full servlet2.3 ( as an optional package, 2.2 will still be
the stable and tested one ).

Costin 

Re: Building 3.2

[Geoff Soutter <ge...@whitewolf.com.au>]

On this topic kind of, what exactly _is_ the difference between 3.2 and 3.3
anyway?

cheers

Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Cook" <ji...@iname.com>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:05 AM
Subject: Building 3.2


> How does a developer go about building the "best" source code for what
will be
> Tomcat 3.2 Final? I downloaded the jakarta-tomcat module tagged with
"tomcat_32"
> and it is ripe with errors. Classes that should be interfaces that are
not, 100s
> of errors, and so on.
>
> Just trying to work with something that may be considered stable, yet has
most
> of the fixes. Are Remy's "beta" builds available anywhere?
>
> jim
>
>
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Re: Building 3.2

[cm...@yahoo.com]

> How does a developer go about building the "best" source code for what will be
> Tomcat 3.2 Final? I downloaded the jakarta-tomcat module tagged with "tomcat_32"
> and it is ripe with errors. Classes that should be interfaces that are not, 100s
> of errors, and so on.

Proably something is wrong with your build environment - make sure you use
the right version of ant and servletapi. 3.2 is "stable" for at least 2
months, with only minimal bug fixes checked in - I can't see how it could
get "100"s of error or anything like that. 

( I do read the cvs commits for 3.2 - and I hope most of the commiters do
that too, and at least few people are working with 3.2 and build from
sources )


> Just trying to work with something that may be considered stable, yet has most
> of the fixes. Are Remy's "beta" builds available anywhere?

Sam's ? 
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/release/v3.2-beta-2/ 

Costin