Tomcat - which version?

[David McCallie]

Thank you all.  I was unaware of the "port sync" command.  Doh!
After sync'ing, I did a "sudo port install tomcat5" and everything
worked like magic.

--david


On 1/23/07, James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>