Re: Tomcat JDBC vs DBCP2?

2015-06-03 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
On 03.06.2015 21:57, Mark Thomas wrote: On 03/06/2015 20:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: Bjørn, On 6/3/15 2:52 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: Just saw a discussion about Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue, where Tomcat JDBC pooling vs Commons DBCP 2 pooling was briefly discussed.. So now I am a bit curious.

Re: [OT] jar files - where - please explain

2015-06-03 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 6/3/15 3:53 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 03/06/2015 20:48, Christopher Schultz wrote: > > > >> I don't understand the underlying reasons why Tomcat treats >> symlinks specially... > > > > It is to do with case sensitivity on non case s

Re: Tomcat JDBC vs DBCP2?

2015-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
On 03/06/2015 20:50, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Bjørn, > > On 6/3/15 2:52 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: >> Just saw a discussion about Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue, where Tomcat >> JDBC pooling vs Commons DBCP 2 pooling was briefly discussed.. So >> now I am a bit curious... I am using Tomcat JDBC, be

Re: jar files - where - please explain

2015-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
On 03/06/2015 20:48, Christopher Schultz wrote: > I don't > understand the underlying reasons why Tomcat treats symlinks > specially... It is to do with case sensitivity on non case sensitive file systems. The check we have to add on Windows to stop things like JSP source disclosure by reques

Re: Tomcat JDBC vs DBCP2?

2015-06-03 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bjørn, On 6/3/15 2:52 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > Just saw a discussion about Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue, where Tomcat > JDBC pooling vs Commons DBCP 2 pooling was briefly discussed.. So > now I am a bit curious... I am using Tomcat JDBC, because I

Re: jar files - where - please explain

2015-06-03 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ray, On 6/3/15 9:44 AM, Ray Holme wrote: >> I'm curious as to why you are using hard links instead of >> symlinks. If you copy a new file over a hard link, you un-couple >> it from the rest of the series of hard links. If you do the same >> with sym

Re: Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue

2015-06-03 Thread Tweak Ronaldo
Hmm, interesting... Thanks for explanation Mark! 2015-06-03 12:22 GMT+03:00 Mark Thomas : > On 03/06/2015 07:24, Tweak Ronaldo wrote: > > Thanks Mark, yes I have mixed together Tomcat JDBC 8 and DBCP 7, my bad. > > Although I don't understand why Tomcat JDBC don't use DBCP as default > > solution

Tomcat JDBC vs DBCP2?

2015-06-03 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
Just saw a discussion about Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue, where Tomcat JDBC pooling vs Commons DBCP 2 pooling was briefly discussed.. So now I am a bit curious... I am using Tomcat JDBC, because I read somewhere that this was better than DBCP (guess they were talking about DBCP 1 then). Does this mea

Re: jar files - where - please explain

2015-06-03 Thread Ray Holme
>Really? Tomcat 6.0 replaced the server/lib/, shared/lib/, and common/lib/ directories in favor of a single, unified lib/ directory. That doesn't strike you as an important change? Again, you are right. Single is much better, but I still only needed one link for the SQL jar and moving that to lib

Re: jar files - where - please explain

2015-06-03 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ray, On 6/2/15 6:42 PM, Ray Holme wrote: > I have not seen changes to the lib structures for any of the tomcat > releases I have used and that spans back 5 years or more (well OK, > at one point symbolic links worked, now they don't unless I change

Re: Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue

2015-06-03 Thread Антон Мацюк
Mark, big thanks for a quick historical review, it was very intreresting! I was thinking that tomcat-jdbc is something new, but wasn't sure about project maintenance. 2015-06-03 12:22 GMT+03:00 Mark Thomas : > On 03/06/2015 07:24, Tweak Ronaldo wrote: > > Thanks Mark, yes I have mixed together To

[ANN] End of life for Apache Tomcat 6.0.x

2015-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
The Apache Tomcat team announces that support for Apache Tomcat 6.0.x will end on 31 December 2016. This means that after 31 December 2016: - releases from the 6.0.x branch are highly unlikely - bugs affecting only the 6.0.x branch will not be addressed - security vulnerability reports will not be

Re: Tomcat DBCP 8.0.18 issue

2015-06-03 Thread Mark Thomas
On 03/06/2015 07:24, Tweak Ronaldo wrote: > Thanks Mark, yes I have mixed together Tomcat JDBC 8 and DBCP 7, my bad. > Although I don't understand why Tomcat JDBC don't use DBCP as default > solution for connections pooling. Tomcat does - and always has - used Commons DBCP for connection pooling b