[Oneiric-Topic] Tomcat 7

[Michael Jeanson]

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> Hi All
> 
> Apache Tomcat 7 was released in January making the newer versions of
> the
> Servlet (3.0) and JSP (2.2) specifications available; Ubuntu currently
> supports Tomcat 6 in main.
> 
> It would be great to understand how widely this package is being used
> and what the appetite to move to Tomcat 7 looks like. Targeting a
> tomcat7 package at universe for Oneiric might make sense.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> James
> 
> --
> James Page
> Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Team

+1, I'm running a couple tomcat6 servers on ubuntu (hardy with
a custom baked 6.0.29 package based on maverick) and we are not
planning to make the move to tomcat7 yet but having a package
in universe would definitely be of great help to start the
testing phase.

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Michael Jeanson - Revolution Linux
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