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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Tia Haenni <th...@kc.rr.com> on 2001/07/26 19:20:33 UTC
Upgrading tomcat
Has anyone gone from 3.2.1 up to 3.3? Does it require a complete uninstall
of previous versions? Is it best to go with 3.3 or wait for 4.0? Thanks,
Tia
RE: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by Tia Haenni <th...@kc.rr.com>.
Exactly! I know I need to upgrade from 3.2.1. I heard 3.3.2 fixed some
security issues. Just when I got things running smoothly with 3.2.1.....here
we go again! Maybe 3.3 or 4.0 will go smoother.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Baker [mailto:rascharles@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:38 PM
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Upgrading tomcat
Another question, do apps developed under the 3.2.x (
jsp 1.1/servlet 2.2 ) work well with Tomcat 4.0 and
the newer servlet/jsp specs?
--- John Hebert <jo...@vedalabs.com> wrote:
> Tia Haenni wrote:
>
> > Has anyone gone from 3.2.1 up to 3.3? Does it
> require a complete uninstall
> > of previous versions? Is it best to go with 3.3 or
> wait for 4.0? Thanks,
>
>
> On a Linux box, an uninstall is not needed. I assume
> it is the same on
> an MS-Windows box. The different versions of Tomcat
> are simply installed
> parallel to each other. You do have to shutdown the
> old install, as the
> new install will try to use the same port numbers
> (8007, 8009, 8080, etc).
>
>
> --
> John Alex Hebert
> john@vedalabs.com
> System Engineer
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RE: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by Tia Haenni <th...@kc.rr.com>.
Well, then, what am I waiting for? Thanks for the input.
Tia
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@apache.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:53 PM
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Upgrading tomcat
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Charles Baker wrote:
> Another question, do apps developed under the 3.2.x (
> jsp 1.1/servlet 2.2 ) work well with Tomcat 4.0 and
> the newer servlet/jsp specs?
>
The servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specs *require* backwards compatibility, even
to the point of requiring 2.3/1.2 containers to recognize valid 2.2/1.1
deployment descriptors and tag libraries. In addition, no
non-backwards-compatible API changes were made.
Therefore, as long as your app does not rely on:
* Non-spec features of Tomcat 3.2 that are different in
Tomcat 4.0.
* Areas where the 2.2/1.1 specs were silent and the 2.3/1.2
specs have created some specific behavior that is different
than what Tomcat 3.2 did.
* Bugs in Tomcat 3.2.
then you should be fine. In practice, I have found *very* few cases where
I bumped into any of these issues. Just as one simple example of this,
all of the web applications shipped with Struts
<http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/> run just fine under both 3.2 and 4.0.
Craig McClanahan
Re: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by "Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Charles Baker wrote:
> Another question, do apps developed under the 3.2.x (
> jsp 1.1/servlet 2.2 ) work well with Tomcat 4.0 and
> the newer servlet/jsp specs?
>
The servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specs *require* backwards compatibility, even
to the point of requiring 2.3/1.2 containers to recognize valid 2.2/1.1
deployment descriptors and tag libraries. In addition, no
non-backwards-compatible API changes were made.
Therefore, as long as your app does not rely on:
* Non-spec features of Tomcat 3.2 that are different in
Tomcat 4.0.
* Areas where the 2.2/1.1 specs were silent and the 2.3/1.2
specs have created some specific behavior that is different
than what Tomcat 3.2 did.
* Bugs in Tomcat 3.2.
then you should be fine. In practice, I have found *very* few cases where
I bumped into any of these issues. Just as one simple example of this,
all of the web applications shipped with Struts
<http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/> run just fine under both 3.2 and 4.0.
Craig McClanahan
Re: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by Charles Baker <ra...@yahoo.com>.
Another question, do apps developed under the 3.2.x (
jsp 1.1/servlet 2.2 ) work well with Tomcat 4.0 and
the newer servlet/jsp specs?
--- John Hebert <jo...@vedalabs.com> wrote:
> Tia Haenni wrote:
>
> > Has anyone gone from 3.2.1 up to 3.3? Does it
> require a complete uninstall
> > of previous versions? Is it best to go with 3.3 or
> wait for 4.0? Thanks,
>
>
> On a Linux box, an uninstall is not needed. I assume
> it is the same on
> an MS-Windows box. The different versions of Tomcat
> are simply installed
> parallel to each other. You do have to shutdown the
> old install, as the
> new install will try to use the same port numbers
> (8007, 8009, 8080, etc).
>
>
> --
> John Alex Hebert
> john@vedalabs.com
> System Engineer
=====
-
rascharles@yahoo.com
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See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
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Re: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by John Hebert <jo...@vedalabs.com>.
Tia Haenni wrote:
> Has anyone gone from 3.2.1 up to 3.3? Does it require a complete uninstall
> of previous versions? Is it best to go with 3.3 or wait for 4.0? Thanks,
On a Linux box, an uninstall is not needed. I assume it is the same on
an MS-Windows box. The different versions of Tomcat are simply installed
parallel to each other. You do have to shutdown the old install, as the
new install will try to use the same port numbers (8007, 8009, 8080, etc).
--
John Alex Hebert
john@vedalabs.com
System Engineer
Re: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by "Pier P. Fumagalli" <pi...@betaversion.org>.
Pier P. Fumagalli at pier@betaversion.org wrote:
> Tia Haenni at thaenni@kc.rr.com wrote:
>
>> Has anyone gone from 3.2.1 up to 3.3? Does it require a complete uninstall
>> of previous versions? Is it best to go with 3.3 or wait for 4.0? Thanks,
>
> 3.3 is still under heavy development (I believe they reached their first
> milestone lately, but no beta versions yet), while 4.0 (at its 6th beta) can
> be considered fairly stable and complete.
FIRST->FOURTH... Sorry :)
Pier
Re: Upgrading tomcat
Posted by "Pier P. Fumagalli" <pi...@betaversion.org>.
Tia Haenni at thaenni@kc.rr.com wrote:
> Has anyone gone from 3.2.1 up to 3.3? Does it require a complete uninstall
> of previous versions? Is it best to go with 3.3 or wait for 4.0? Thanks,
3.3 is still under heavy development (I believe they reached their first
milestone lately, but no beta versions yet), while 4.0 (at its 6th beta) can
be considered fairly stable and complete.
Pier