Tomcat 5 vs Tomcat 6

[MohanKrishna Bitta]

Hi all,

Can anybody explain me about the differnce between Tomcat 5 and Tomcat 6

regards,
Mohan
[ December 29, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Jaikiran Pai]

Tomcat 5 supports Servlet/JSP spec 2.4/2.0 where as Tomcat 6 supports 2.5/2.1 spec. More details here

[Bear Bibeault]

We have a forum for question on Tomcat. I have moved this post there.

[Bill Clar]

Not to derail the topic, but Tomcat currently has two 5.x versions: 5.5.20 and 5.0.28. I've looked on their website for an explanation of these differences to no avail. Is there a reason for this?

Bill Clar

[Ulf Dittmer]

Bill,

Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 support the same version of the Servlet/JSP API, but there are a number of differences, as listed here.

[Bear Bibeault]

Bill, in the future please start your own questions in their own topic.

thanks

[Garrett Smith]

One thing I found is that you can't do this in tomcat 5.5 but it works in tomcat 6.

 
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>GZIPFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

[Ben Souther]

The best place to go for a detailed explanation of the difference between versions is the the release notes document that ships with Tomcat.

Tomcat's site also has a "Which Version" page that goes over these differences.