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New Apache Tomcat Branch 5.5 Released

Posted by michael on from the now-ever-so-slightly-faster dept.

darthcamaro writes "A good week for Apache Tomcat users - an incremental update to the latest stable version - 5.028 - and a new branch - Apache Tomcat 5.5. According to a story running on internetnews.com, the most notable features include the move to Eclipse from SUN's SDK, which according to one Tomcat user quoted in the story means that Tomcat will be faster than ever before. It's kinda funny that the way to make Java run faster is to take Sun out of the equation..."

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  1. Pedantic by arthurs_sidekick · · Score: 5, Informative

    The two main changes are (1) making sure it works with the upcoming JDK 5.0 (formerly 1.5) release and (2) shipping the Eclipse compiler *for compiling JSPs*. Neither of these moves are strikingly fundamental, although the second one is kind of interesting.

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  2. Change is for JSP compilation ... by jlrobins_uncc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seems they now default to using the java compiler shipped with Eclipse instead of the com.sun.* compiler which 'javac' uses. So, no tools.jar dependency -- can run on straight sun JRE, not SDK.

    This only effects JSP (re)compilation.

    This could have been made more clear by the submitter. But that wouldn't do, would it?

  3. Re:eclipse is an sdk? by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA

    They are moving to eclipe's java development tools which include a compiler which is faster than the standard Sun compiler (at the moment I presume). The compiler is used for compiling JSPs.

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