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New Apache Tomcat Branch 5.5 Released

Posted by michael on Friday September 3, 2004 @02:36AM 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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Re:Tomcat is amazing by weeksie · 2004-09-04 02:14 · Score: 2, Insightful

I know this will come off as a bit trollish but calling a J2EE app server a great tool sounds a bit like Stockholm Syndrome to me. I imagine it was great compared to stock servlets and corba *shiver*.
I like Tomcat and have developed several apps with it, however simple and robust are not terms I would grace it with.