Tomcat 5 anybody

[siegfried1]

I would like to use JSP2 with JBoss. I believe JSP2 is only available in Tomcat 5.

Is there a written procedure for replacing Tomcat 4 with Tomcat 5 after installing the Tomcat4/Jboss bundle?

Thanks,
Siegfried

[cfrostrun]

I would also like to know this?

Please post answers or links to answers here!

[jonlee]

Jasper 2 is already implemented in Jetty and Tomcat 4.1.x. http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jasper-howto.html. Tomcat 5's status as an alpha release will probably preclude it from being production ready for a JBoss bundle. You can probably hack the existing jbossweb-tomcat MBean to accommodate the Tomcat 5 container, although I'm sure there are going to be issues such as classloading and so forth.

[cfrostrun]

Well I'm semi-confused on what is really implemented. According to tomcat 4.1 documentation jasper2 implements jsp spec 1.2 where as on the tomcat 5 docs page says jasper2 implements spec 2.0. So does jasper 2 for tomcat 4.1 implement 2.0 spec features, specifically the new taglib features? And tomcat4.1 docs are just outdated?

chris

> Jasper 2 is already implemented in Jetty and Tomcat
> 4.1.x.
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jasper
> howto.html. Tomcat 5's status as an alpha release
> will probably preclude it from being production ready
> for a JBoss bundle. You can probably hack the
> existing jbossweb-tomcat MBean to accommodate the
> Tomcat 5 container, although I'm sure there are going
> to be issues such as classloading and so forth.

[greno]

If you want JSP 2.0 functionality you will need Tomcat 5. I've been using Tomcat 5 for almost six months and it is now very stable. If you can, wait for Tomcat 5.0.7. It will have a fix for a small Jasper bug. It would be nice if there were an EA JBoss-4/Tomcat-5 bundle for the early adopter types.