apache-tomcat-4.1.39-LE-jdk14.tar.gz

Apache Tomcat Version 4.1 ========================= Release Notes ============= $Id: RELEASE-NOTES-4.1.txt 718145 2008-11-16 23:50:57Z markt $ ============ INTRODUCTION: ============ This document describes the changes that have been made in the current development version of Apache Tomcat, relative to the Tomcat 4.0 release. The release notes for all prior releases of Tomcat 4.1 are also included, for your reference. Bug reports should be entered at the bug reporting system for Jakarta projects at: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/ Please report bugs and feature requests under product name "Tomcat 4". ============ NEW FEATURES: ============ -------------------- General New Features: -------------------- [4.1.1] Administration Webapp: Complete development of the initial version of the administration web application. [4.1.5] Administration Webapp: Add support for manipulating JNDI resources of web applications. [4.1.6] Administration Webapp: Add support for JavaMail resources. [4.1.6] Tyrex resources: Upgrade to Tyrex 1.0. [4.1.10] Commons components: Upgrade to stable releases. [4.1.11] Administration Webapp: Add support for DefaultContext. [4.1.11] Documentation: New JK and JK 2 documentation. [4.1.15] i18n: Complete French language translation. [4.1.19] Documentation: Added printer friendly versions of the documents. [4.1.19] Administration Webapp: Complete the accessibility requirements to pass section 508. [4.1.28] Connectors: The Coyote connector (HTTP/1.1 and AJP/1.3) has been upgraded to Coyote 1.1, which is the one used by Tomcat 5.0.x. Please refer to the Tomcat 5.0 changelog for the list of changes. [4.1.29] DBCP: Upgrade to DBCP 1.1. [4.1.31] License Upgrade to Apache License 2.0 [4.1.31] JAF Upgrade to JAF 1.0.2 [4.1.31] JavaMail Upgrade to 1.3.1 [4.1.31] JTA Upgrade to 1.0.1b [4.1.32] Commons Beanutils Upgrade to 1.7.0 [4.1.32] Commons Collections Upgrade to 3.1 [4.1.32] Commons Digester Upgrade to 1.7 [4.1.32] Commons Logging Upgrade to 1.0.4 [4.1.32] Jakarta RegExp Upgrade to 1.4 [4.1.32] Xerces Upgrade to 2.8.0 [4.1.32] Commons Daemon Upgrade to 1.0.1 [4.1.32] Commons DBCP Upgrade to 1.2.1 [4.1.32] Commons Pool Upgrade to 1.3 [4.1.32] JUnit Upgrade to 3.8.1 [4.1.32] Commons Java Mail Upgrade to 1.3.3_01 [4.1.32] Tyrex Data Source Upgrade to 1.0.3 [4.1.32] Building Now compiles on Java 5 [4.1.32] NIS Upgrade to 2.14 [4.1.32] Struts Upgrade to 1.2.9 [4.1.32] Building Re-structure source distribution so build scripts work without modification [4.1.32] Service Replace JavaService with commons-deamon [4.1.32] Commons FileUpload Upgrade to 1.1.1 (requires commons-io) [4.1.32] Commons IO Add version 1.2 [4.1.32] JUnit Upgrade to 3.8.2 [4.1.32] Pure TLS Upgrade to 0.9b5 [4.1.33] Commons Collections Upgrade to 3.2 [4.1.33] Commons BeanUtils Revert to 1.6.1 [4.1.34] Commons BeanUtils Return to 1.7.0 [4.1.34] Commons Logging Upgrade to 1.1 [4.1.35] Commons Digetster Upgrade to 1.8 [4.1.35] Commons IO Upgrade to 1.2 [4.1.35] Commons Modeler Upgrade to 2.0 [4.1.35] Xerces Upgrade to 2.9.0 [4.1.35] MX4J Upgrade to 3.0.2 [4.1.35] Java Transaction API Upgrade to 1.1 [4.1.35] NSIS Upgrade to 2.23 [4.1.35] JDK JDK 1.3+ is now required [4.1.35] PureTLS Upgrade to 0.9b5 [4.1.37] Commons FileUpload Upgrade to 1.2 [4.1.37] Commons Logging Upgrade to 1.1.1 [4.1.37] JNDI Remove JNDI 1.2 since it is included in 1.3+ JDKs [4.1.37] Commons Modeler Upgrade to 2.0.1 [4.1.37] Jakarta RegExp Upgrade to 1.5 [4.1.37] Xerces Upgrade to 2.9.1 [4.1.37] Commons DBCP Upgrade to 1.2.2 [4.1.37] Commons Pool Upgrade to 1.4 [4.1.37] NSIS Upgrade to 2.34 --------------------- Catalina New Features: --------------------- [4.1.3] Catalina: Implement custom logger which can be used to capture System.out and System.err to a buffer for later use. [4.1.3] SSIServlet: Complete rewrite of the SSI functionality (WARNING: servlet class name has changed). [4.1.3] CoyoteConnector: Add PureTLS support. [4.1.4] Embedded: Add support for Coyote HTTP/1.1 and Coyote JK 2. [4.1.4] DefaultContext: Refactoring of DefaultContext to support dynamic configuration (naming resources and other misc properties). [4.1.4] MBeanUtils: Allow specifying custom MBean descriptor files. [4.1.5] ServerLifecycleListener: Generate MBeans for the JNDI resources of the contexts. [4.1.8] BootstrapService: Allow passing parameters to the BootstrapService. [4.1.15] JNDIRealm: Add support for SSL with the JNDIRealm. [4.1.16] AuthenticatorBase: Add a configuration option to disable setting the headers which prevent proxies from caching protected pages. Using this option may open security holes in your application, so it should only be used if you are certain about what you are doing. [4.1.16] JNDIRealm: Allow configuring how JNDI should handle referrals returned by the server. [4.1.16] AccessLogValve: Allow disabling log file rotation, and add new patterns. [4.1.17] DataSourceRealm: A new Realm implementation which can use a JNDI named JDBC DataSource has been added. [4.1.19] JNDIRealm: Added support for using an alternateURL if a socket connection can not be made to the provider at the connectionURL. [4.1.19] CoyoteConnector: Add HTTP/1.1 GZIP compression support. [4.1.20] StandardWrapper, ManagerBase: Added JavaBean fields to expose statistics through JMX. [4.1.20] GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener: Allow the listener to be associated with a Service. [4.1.25] ExtendedAccessLogValve: An implementation of the W3c Extended Log File Format. See http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-logfile.html for more information about the format. [4.1.29] DefaultContext: Added support for nesting a Context Listener and a Webapp Loader within a DefaultContext. [4.1.31] #18273 CGI Servlet Add support for optionally passing the shell environment variables to the CGI script [4.1.32] #31201 Default Servlet New option to set file encoding for static resources [4.1.32] #28305 Startup scripts Provide greater control over redirection of stdout and stderr [4.1.37] Configuration files Add support for system property replacement in configuration files ------------------- Jasper New Features: ------------------- [4.1.1] JspServlet, Options: Add new "reloading" flag allowing to disable the JSP reloading checks, to allow better performance on production servers. [4.1.1] JspServlet: Refactor the JSP modification checking as a background thread. [4.1.3] Compiler: Ant 1.5 based compiler. [4.1.4] Compiler: Extensive code cleanup. [4.1.4] JspC: Extensive refactoring of JspC. [4.1.4] Options: Add new "compiler" option, which contains the Ant name of the Java compiler to be used. Please refer to the list in the Ant documentation for more details. [4.1.4] Generator: Fix the limitation on the number of tags which can be used within a single page, which was cause by th