[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.8.0 CLE and Tomcat 7

[Brandon Davie]

That confluence page was actually just updated from Tomcat 5.5.x to Tomcat 7 on September 6th, conveinently four days after I setup a development environment based off of it. I look forward to redoing it tomorrow and updating our own documentation accordingly ;-)

Brandon Davie
Programmer
The Schools of McKeel Academy
863-499-2818 EXT 222

On Sep 7, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> For 2.8 you want to be running Java 6 and Tomcat 5.5. For 2.9 and beyond we are also supporting Tomcat 7, although SAkai still works in Tomcat 5.5.
> 
> The developer environment walkthrough mentions Tomcat 7 because it's recommended that developers work with trunk.
> 
> cheers,
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/09/2011, at 4:19 AM, Mike Jennings wrote:
> 
>> Hi all, I have a question about which version of Tomcat I should use for 
>> a Sakai 2.8.0 upgrade.
>> 
>> I see on the 2.8.0 release notes that I should be using Tomcat 5.5.x....
>> 
>> This is from the release notes....
>> 
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.8+Release+Notes
>> 
>> It should be noted that currently Sakai CLE 2x is not compatible with 
>> Tomcat 6 or 7, a servlet container that some schools run as a standalone 
>> web server instead of fronting it with the Apache HTTP web server. It is 
>> anticipated that the Sakai CLE 2.9 release (Q2/Q3 2012) will be 
>> compatible with Tomcat 7.
>> 
>> but if you check out the updated developers docs at 
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Development+Environment+Setup+Walkthrough 
>> it says to use Tomcat 7....
>> 
>> Just interested in why there is a difference here...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
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>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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