Tomcat 3.2 V/S Tomcat 4.0 1

[ramkumars]

Hi,

I have a choice of hosting my web application on either Tomcat 3.2 or Tomcat 4.0. Can anyone compare these two on these lines.
1.Stability
2.Performance
3.Support for SSL
4.Integration with Apache

Thanks in advance,
SRK

 

[wushutwist]

Well, the main benefit about Tomcat 4 is that it supports the latest Servlet/JSP specs. So you could do a lot of cool and useful things that couldn't be done before. Number 3 and 4 should be basically the same between versions 3.2 and 4.x.

As far as points 1 and 2, I would say it is a bit early to tell. I would definitely think 3.2 is a bit more stable only because it has been around for a long time while 4.x did not go final release until this past month. Performance may be a bit better in 4.x.

Support is definitely going to be better in the short-term with 3.2, until more people start using 4.x. Long-term, 4.x is definitely the way to go.

Overall, I would go with 4.x. Just know that it is a recent release so all the bugs might not be worked out. Than again there are known bugs in 3.2 and those will never be worked out. Wushutwist

 

[dennisGuru]

I'm use 4.0 now for a few days. I did not got in very deep yet. But 4.0 uses a manager and that is very helpfull for developping applications.

Also 4.0 is faster then 3.2. It starts faster and generates the jsp faster.

Installation of application is a bit trickier in 4.0.

 

[ramkumars]

I would also like to share this point. when i moved my jsp files from 3.2 to 4.0, most of the jsp's produced compilation error. this is because 4.0 does not implicitly include java.io package as 3.2 used to do. so you have to explicitly import this package.also you have to import any classes which are located under the WEB-INF directory of your context.There was no need for this in 3.2