Tomcat 7 finalized(itworld.com)
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Tomcat 7 finalized
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/133747/tomcat-7-finalized
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MySQL takes this approach too. 5.5 went GA on 5.5.8 I believe. It can be a little confusing at first if you're used to alpha/beta/rc candidates but it makes more sense over time since you have a consistent numbering scheme vs. something like 1.1-beta2.
I'm not an expert on this but I'm guessing with tomcat being so ubiquitous they do an initial release of the new version, and then it takes a few revisions out in the wild for them to deem something production stable. I think its the equivalent of doing release candidates ala Firefox but without the RC label.
This is really a much better way to do it than the arbitrary silliness of alpha, beta, rc, dev, etc junk. See e.g. ridiculousness of python's PEP 386. Nice and deterministic.
I am doing a job using Glashfish + EJB 3.1 and just yesterday I was looking briefly at Tomcat + OpenEJB as a possible future stack.
Glashfish is a nice stack but there is a (small) possibility that Oracle may not enthusiastically shepherd the Glashfish project. Besides, like Apache projects because so much of my consulting business is built on various Apache projects == comfort zone for me.
Glashfish is a nice stack but there is a (small) possibility that Oracle may not enthusiastically shepherd the Glashfish project. Besides, like Apache projects because so much of my consulting business is built on various Apache projects == comfort zone for me.
"This is the first stable release of the Tomcat 7 branch.".
I'm a little confused by Tomcat's version numbering:
http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html
Shouldn't 7.0.0 instead of 7.0.6 be the first stable release?