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:
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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.
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