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From: Costin Manolache <cmanolache@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [TC5] Time to make a release?
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:59:23 -0800
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Remy Maucherat wrote:

> Kin-Man Chung wrote:
>> There has been inquiries about a Tomcat 5 release, both in and out
>> of the mailing list.  I usually direct them to our nightly builds,
>> but there is no links from the jakarta page, and they are not always
>> available.  I think it's time that we make a release, to make it
>> easier for people to try it out.
>> 
>> I know there are a lot of work still going on, and a lot need to be
>> done to make it into a stable release.  I am thinking about an alpha
>> release.  Now that JSP 2.0 PFD2 has been published,
>> 
>> (http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/first/jsr152/index2.html)
>> 
>> and the jasper implementation has been complete, we need a release for
>> people to try it out.
>> 
>> Comment?
> 
> The problem was that we were (and still are) in between feature
> additions (new mapper, new JMX features), and right now the result is
> probably flaky.
> 
> I would have wanted to get the JSR 77 lifecylce issues fixed (ie, when
> you remove a context, you should remove the associated MBean, so that
> the mapper gets a notification and can do the mapping correctly) before
> tagging a new 5.0.1 alpha.

I'm working on this...

Costin


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