Tomcat update
We plan to upgrade Tomcat from 4.1.31.
Our Axis 1.4 application where we have our web services.
Please ask you to suggest the latest stable version of Tomcat 5 or Tomcat 6 suitable for our application. And all there is to consider when upgrading.
Will the existing 1.4 Java codebase run smoothly on Tomcat 5 or 6?
And then we can also write the code in JDK 1.5. So having Java 1.4 code and Java 1.5 code together, will you have problems?
Please suggest.
Share your update experience.
Thanks:)
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Tomcat 6.0.26 is the latest stable release.
It requires JRE 5.0 or newer , so if you're really stuck with 1.4, you need to download the latest 5.5, which requires the compatibility pack to run on 1.4.
My advice: bite the bullet and make the necessary changes to make your application work on 1.6. With age, it gets harder to update (and keep coding in 1.4) over time.
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If you are going to upgrade, I would recommend running some tests first with java 6+ existing codebases. If that works, go to Tomcat 6.
Maybe also update some Axis libraries while you're at it, or leave it as it is if it still works.
In my experience, you might run into difficulties moving to Java 5 (and therefore 6), especially XML. My memory has a bit of a class name collision between Java 5 and an older version of Xerces, but I could be wrong.
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