I agree with Mike that we shall drop
tomcat 4 and replace it with tomcat 5, since tomcat 4 is not recommended by
this Apache project.
Wenfeng
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I'm mainly going by the Apache Tomcat website. From
the home page (tomcat.apache.org)
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"Please note
that although we offer downloads and documentation of older releases, such
as Apache Tomcat 3.x and 4.x, we strongly encourage users to use the latest
stable version of Apache Tomcat whenever possible"
And from their version description page for V4: (bolding is theirs, not
mine)
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We encourage all users to
upgrade to Apache Tomcat 5.x whenever possible
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If there was a problem running BIRT with tomcat 4.1, but it worked with
V5.*, would you really want to put effort into fixing it? V5.* has
been out a long time. There is also active development in progress, as you
can get a 5.0.30 beta. My guess is that there are a lot of shops
(like mine) that haven't committed to Java 1.5 yet and are still using
1.4.2. While I agree that 5.0.x will likely work, I'd have to go back
to tomcat 4 to be an officially supported/tested configuration.
Mike
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Mike,
Ideally we would test all 3, but the is the hard part from a
resource standpoint. The strategy of testing the lowest and highest in a range
gives a fair probability that the intermediate versions will work. Hence the
reason of testing 4.1.x and 5.5.x. Anticipation is that there is a fair
probability that 5.0.x will "just work".
However, it sounds like from your perspective, there is no
value for testing 4.1. Right?
Paul.
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I understand the issues around resource constraints, but it just seems strange
to me that we would test against tomcat V4.1, skip a very popular 5.0 version,
and test again against the current V5.5. Unless there is something here I don't
know about, why not drop the V4.1 and test against 5.0.28 and 5.5? These
are the versions Apache recommends.
Mike
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Michael and Scott,
Thanks for the feedback. I believe that we are testing against a specific
version of Tomcat 4.1 and 5.5. By listing 4.1.x and 5.5.x we are saying that we
expect that BIRT will work fine against all 4.1.x and 5.5.x versions. To
address your question about supporting 5.0.28, resource constraints are
limiting us from doing that. Additionally, the BIRT runtime will run in both
1.4.2 and 1.5 JVM, so that should not be an issue. I’ve updated the
project for Supporting the Enhanced ODA Framework to remove the reference to
external connection profiles. This is not going to make it into 2.1. I’ve
also added a project for bugzilla ID 126109 based on Scott’s feedback.
Thanks!
Krishna
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A few comments:
- The App Server reference platform lists Tomcat 4.1.x and 5.5.x. It
doesn't include 5.0.x. Why include the V4 version but not the V5.0
family? Also, I believe that V5.5 requires the JRE V5.0 which conflicts
with J2SE V1.4.2 listed elsewhere. While you don't have to support all
V5.0.x versions, at least 5.0.28 should be there. You could probably
similarly restrict the V4.1.x to 4.1.31, which is the one available on the
tomcat website. I would be hesitant to require J2SE V5, as I'd guess that
there is still a lot of 1.4.2 out there.
- Under "Support Enhanced ODA Framework", does this imply that you
support an externally supplied Connection? If so, this is a big feature that
makes connection pooling possible. Am I reading this wrong?
Mike
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Please review the attached BIRT 2.1 project plan and provide me feedback
by COB tomorrow - Wednesday. The plan is to post the plan on to eclipse.org
thursday morning. If there are updates after that we can incorporate these
individually.
Thanks!
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