Tomcat 5.5.X ready for production ?

[Jean-Marc Vanel]

Hi

I need your advices and experiences !
Is Tomcat 5.5.X ready for production ?

I will add some new features to an application running currently on
5.0.X . I consider taking this opportunity to switch to tomcat 5.5.X ,
and at the same time to JDK 5.0 .

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[Noah Fiedel]

Hi Jean Marc,
I'm currently using Tomcat 5.0.28 and am about to use it in a large
scale production deployment. We have done serious load testing and it
is very stable. While I'm a big fan of the Apache-Tomcat group, they
are IMHO notorious for hyping the latest versions over stable versions.

Take the mod_jk and mod_jk2 connector. My management wanted the
latest/most current, so at first we decided on mod_jk2. After a bit of
effort, we realized that mod_jk2 was not really supported. A few months
later (around Nov, 2004) the Tomcat group officially took mod_jk2
offline and said mod_jk would be the Tomcat connector.

Back to your question. I would take 5.0.30. It is stable, and you
can see by the smallest versio number "30" that there have been 30
revisions. Each of these refine what is already a great project and
make it more stable. The 5.5.x branch is at 5.5.7, and I don't know
anyone who is using it in production.

Good luck, Noah

 

[Steven]

I have installed 5.5.6 and had a few problems with it, so I went back to
5.5.4 and the problems where solved.

 

[Ryan Stewart]

Hi

I need your advices and experiences !
Is Tomcat 5.5.X ready for production ?

I will add some new features to an application running currently on 5.0.X . I
consider taking this opportunity to switch to tomcat 5.5.X , and at the same
time to JDK 5.0 .

This question would be much better asked on a Tomcat mailing list if you haven't
already.