[ANNOUNCEMENT] Tomcat 3.3 Milestone 3

[Larry Isaacs <La...@sas.com>]

The second milestone release of Tomcat 3.3 is available for download
and testing.  As a Tomcat 3.x release, it remains an implementation
of the Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 specifications.

The Milestone 3 release offers bug fixes over Milestone 2, plus a new
feature.  Jasper now includes Tag pooling, implemented by Casey Lucas.
Tag pooling code is included in each JSP page, but use of the pool is
disabled by default.  Refer to the "readme" file found in Tomcat's
"doc" directory for details on enabling this feature.

Some issues are being worked on concerning the "test" web
applications (test.war, watchdog-jsp.war, and watchdog-servlet.war)
and Tag pooling.  In this release, Tag pooling should be disabled
when running the tests.

Again, refer to the "readme" for the most current information
concerning Tomcat 3.3.  Unfortunately, the rest of the documentation
is still out of date.

If you did not try the Milestone 1 or 2 releases, the following
additional information may help you make full use of the Milestone 3
release: 

1) The binary distribution has source for the connectors, but not for
   the Tomcat container.  The source from the full jakarta-tomcat CVS
   tree is available separately in the "v3.3-m3/src" directory. 

2) The new class loader scheme in this release ignores your CLASSPATH
   setting. Instead, you may add needed jars to Tomcat's "lib/apps",
   "lib/common", and "lib/container" directories. See the "readme" file
   in Tomcat's "doc" directory for details.
   Milestone 3 supports two System properties:
       org.apache.tomcat.apps.classpath
       org.apache.tomcat.common.classpath
   which add their listed classes and jars to the jars in "lib/apps"
   and "lib/common", respectively.

3) The "sanity-test" is not part of the binary distribution like it was
   with Tomcat 3.2.  However, it is available in "War" form (test.war),
   along with the Watchdog JSP (watchdog-jsp.war) and servlet tests
   (watchdog-servlet.war).  These are found in the "v3.3-m3/apps"
   directory.  Place these War files in Tomcat's "webapps" directory
   before starting Tomcat. To simplify testing, these tests can be run
   from the Admin web application. See the "readme" file in Tomcat's
   "doc" directory for details. 

Please download this release and give it a try in your environment.  The
source, rpms, and binaries may be found at: 

    http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat/release/v3.3-m3 

To log problems or bugs, as well as submit patches, please refer to: 

    http://jakarta.apache.org/site/bugs.html 

When logging bugs to Bugzilla, please specify the Program as "Tomcat 3"
and the Version as "3.3 Milestone 3" (or "3.3.x Nightly" if that
doesn't exist yet). Also, supplying a test case will greatly improve
our ability to address the problem.  Please do so if at all possible.

Thanks, 
Larry Isaacs 

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Larry Isaacs		
Larry.Isaacs@sas.com
SAS Institute Inc.