Tomcat - which version?

[James Berry]

On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:10 PM, David McCallie wrote:

> Newbie question.  What is the difference between the two Apache  
> Tomcat versions?  Tomcat-native and Tomcat5?  I want to create some  
> Java servlets.  Mac OS-X Tiger 10.4.8

Tomcat5 is the tomcat 5 servlet container.

Tomcat-native is an extension to tomcat that provides a native (bare- 
metal c) IO stack that sits on top of apache apr, and is primarily  
used to speed IO operations when tomcat is front-ended by apache  
httpd through the ajp protocol using mod_proxy_ajp or mod_jk. Note  
that tomcat-native is purely an enhancement; all of the foregoing can  
be done (and is usually done) using non-native java code. The  
"native" code can speed things up a bit.

>
> Second question:  I tried to "port install Tomcat5" and it failed  
> due to inability to find Ant-1.6.5.  Apparently all the mirrors now  
> carry only Ant-1.7?  Is there a way to tell it to use the newer  
> Ant, or should the portfile be updated?  Or is there an old 1.6.5  
> somewhere?
>

As mentioned otherwise, you need to update your ports.

James.