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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "Robillard, Greg L" <gr...@lmco.com> on 2010/11/19 03:28:46 UTC
Should I upgrade to 7.0
I am relatively unfamiliar with tomcat. I am currently running 6.26 in a production system that support 1 webapp for approximately 60 clients that continually poll the server for updates ( weather files ).
Is there any reason why I should upgrade to tomcat 7.0 release.
Thanks
Re: Should I upgrade to 7.0
Posted by Edoardo Panfili <ed...@aspix.it>.
On 19/11/10 03.28, Robillard, Greg L wrote:
> I am relatively unfamiliar with tomcat. I am currently running 6.26 in a production system that support 1 webapp for approximately 60 clients that continually poll the server for updates ( weather files ).
>
> Is there any reason why I should upgrade to tomcat 7.0 release.
>
Tomcat 7.0 (7.0.4 http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi)
is still tagged as "beta"... I am using it in my development environment
(without problems) but not in a production system.
Edoardo
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Re: Should I upgrade to 7.0
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Greg,
On 11/18/2010 9:28 PM, Robillard, Greg L wrote:
> I am relatively unfamiliar with tomcat. I am currently running 6.26
> in a production system that support 1 webapp for approximately 60
> clients that continually poll the server for updates ( weather files
> ).
>
> Is there any reason why I should upgrade to tomcat 7.0 release.
I'm going to go out on a limb and make a recommendation that is counter
to the the other responses thus far: upgrade.
Why? Two reasons:
1. Tomcat 7 needs more real-world testers
2. You appear to have very few users to anger if things go wrong
:)
Consider upgrading to help the cause. Upgrading to Tomcat 7 should be
fairly painless since you are already using Tomcat 6. Remember: test
early, test often.
- -chris
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Re: Should I upgrade to 7.0
Posted by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com>.
Robillard, Greg L wrote:
> I am relatively unfamiliar with tomcat. I am currently running 6.26 in a production system that support 1 webapp for approximately 60 clients that continually poll the server for updates ( weather files ).
>
> Is there any reason why I should upgrade to tomcat 7.0 release.
>
Unless you have a problem, not with any urgency, no.
You may want to upgrade to 6.0.29, which is the real current version in the 6.0 series
(see http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html), and which will not break anything.
I am still quite happily running systems with Tomcat 5.5. I would not recommend this as a
general practice, but as long as there is no problem..
An old saying is : if it's not broken, don't fix it.
I expect some comments on the above personal views.
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Re: Should I upgrade to 7.0
Posted by Pid <pi...@pidster.com>.
On 19/11/2010 02:28, Robillard, Greg L wrote:
> I am relatively unfamiliar with tomcat. I am currently running 6.26 in a production system that support 1 webapp for approximately 60 clients that continually poll the server for updates ( weather files ).
>
> Is there any reason why I should upgrade to tomcat 7.0 release.
Yes, there are, but you should note that most release versions of Tomcat
are associated with a version of the Servlet Specification (Servlet 3.0
in 7.0's case). See:
http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html
Tomcat 7.0 has not yet been declared stable, but is thought to be
approaching that point.
If you need or want Servlet 3.0 features then yes, upgrade, - if not, is
there a compelling reason to upgrade? Perhaps not yet.
Upgrading to the 'latest and greatest' may not be necessary for you at
this point, but I'd recommend trying it in a dev environment, if you
have one, because getting feedback about the server is important.
p
> Thanks
>