Why move from Tomcat 5.5.x to Tomcat 6

[Sonny Gill]

Hi,

I see on Tomcat website that the version 6 supports Servlet 2.5/JSP 2.1.

Other than that, what are the main benefits of migrating from Tomcat 5.5.x to 6.0.1?

Thanks.

- Sonny

[David O'Meara]

I know TC6 has an upgraded AJP connector. IMportant for some

[Craig Bayley]

[edit: thread hijack removed. Please start questions unrelated to the original post in a new topic.]
[ October 02, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Jeff Genender]

One really good reason to go to Tomcat 6, the NIO connectors and support for Comet with CometFilter and CometProcessor can allow Tomcat to scale much further. Here is a good load analysis:

http://blog.covalent.net/roller/covalent/entry/20070308

This is highly effective with AJAX applications.

[Sonny Gill]

Thanks guys.

Very good reasons, both. I am going to take a good, hard look at it as soon as time permits.
This should be a fun week in this forum