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On Apr 1, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Satheesh Babu wrote:

> Good Evening!
>=20
> We're running our production applications in Tomcat 5.5/JRE 1.5, and =
there is a need for us to migrate our applications to Java 7(JRE 1.7). =
There is no information available either on java or on Apace Tomcat site =
regrading the compatibility of java 7 with tomcat 5.5. Could you please =
let me know the compatibility of Java 7/Tomcat 5.5 (or) do we need to =
upgrade tomcat to 6 (or) 7, for java 7.
>=20
> I truly appreciate your response, thanks for your timely help.
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> Thanks,
> Satheesh Babu


First, this is the wrong list for such a question. This question belongs =
on the User's list. I am cross-posting on both lists this one time to =
inform you of this and to relocate the topic.

Second, good to hear that your organization is making the jump to Java =
7. Java 6 is no longer supported and Java 8 will be out soon.

Third, upgrade Tomcat. Tomcat 5.5 is extremely old and no longer =
supported. That's why you won't even find it on the Tomcat site proper =
[1] anymore, you can only find it in the archives. You will likely not =
find anyone on these lists willing to help you much with 5.5.

Finally, Tomcat 6 and 7 will both run quite fine on Java 7, but they =
will not compile on Java 7. If you want a version of Tomcat that =
compiles on Java 7, you will need to wait for Tomcat 8, which is =
currently in development and should (hopefully) be out later this year.

[1] http://tomcat.apache.org/=

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