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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. Tomcat is amazing by BoomerSooner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been using it since around 99 or 2000 (bad memory) while trying to learn how to use jsp to migrate our platform from a purely servlet/corba based architecture (very complicated). At the time I was amazed at the simplicity of using such a robust tool. Since that time I have become an even larger fan.

    FYI Tomcat is the webserver in OS X Server along with apache.

  2. Re:Change is for JSP compilation ... by JavaRob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly -- and I'd also point out that no large site that I know of would be affected by this performance-wise, though faster compilation of JSPs will be nice for development. How often do you make a JSP change that will be seen first by the end user?

    JSPs can be easily precompiled, or just hit by the developer before linking them on the site, to force compilation. Even if compilation is faster than it was, that doesn't mean it's as fast as when the user hits a page that's already been compiled.

    Either way, Tomcat is a great app -- funny that it started as just a simple "reference" implementation of the servlet/JSP APIs....