misc - Info
This section contains miscellaneous items of interest:
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Tomcat 4 -> 5 Upgrade Guide: A brief look at upgrading an existing Tomcat 4 installation to Tomcat 5. It includes changes to Tomcat itself as well as advice on how to approach the upgrade process.
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Tomcat 5.0 -> v5.5 Upgrade Guide Similar to the 4 -> 5 doc.
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People have asked why there's no upgrade guide for Tomcat 5.5.x -> 6.0. That's because, based on my experience, little has changed as far as infrastructure. Note that there is only one lib directory; Tomcat 6.0 does away with the separate directories common/lib, shared/lib, and server/lib. Other than that, simply rebuild your apps against the new Tomcat JARs and you should be ready to roll.
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Several people have asked me to share my Tomcat instance setup. This template directory lets you setup multiple, distinct servlet containers on a single machine, under different user accounts, without disturbing the main Tomcat binaries. The readme file in the package explains this in detail. (Latest version: 20080601).
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I have also had requests for my Apache instance template. That is now available for download as well. (Latest version: 20060904)
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ListenExec. was inspired by a thread on the Tomcat users mailing list: how does one restart the container, from a webapp hosted within the container? ListenExec is a network listener that accepts (authenticated) requests to do that, and more. It's still in alpha/proof-of-concept mode, but the code is there for the curious.