RE: Tomcat 4.0 release date?

[Randy Layman <ra...@aswethink.com>]

	
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Eric Miller [mailto:jemiller@uchicago.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:02 PM
> To: Tomcat User List
> Subject: Tomcat 4.0 release date?
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> Anyone have any ideas on when Tomcat 4.0 might be released? I 

	4.0 should go final shortly after the final Servlet 2.3 spec is
released.  (Beta 6 will be released later this week or next week, according
to posts to the list recently).

> see that it's
> currently in Beta 5 whereas 3.3 is only at milestone 4. As 
> far as I can
> tell, milestones are actually Alphas. Why not name them as such?
	I think of milestones more as reaching points on a development plan,
while Alphas are completed code.  I don't know enough about Tomcat
development to know if this is right, but this is the way that I've seen the
terminology used on other projects.

> 
> Is 4.0 expected to be released before 3.3? If so, what's the 
> point of 3.3?
> 
	The distinction between Tomcat 3 and 4 is that version 3 is
dedicated to support the Servlet 2.2 spec.  Version 4 supports the 2.3 spec.
Therefore, as long as people are using the 2.2 spec and haven't upgraded to
the 2.3 spec, there will be some form of Tomcat 3 around (although active
development will probably ramp down as the user base moved to Tomcat 4).
Therefore, the point of 3.3 is to support the Servlet spec 2.2, but continue
to enhance its feature set.  The point of 4.0 is to be ready with a
reference implementation as soon as the spec is finalized.
> Jon
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