Tomcat upgrade from 6 to 7
Until now, we have discussed various theoretical processes of the upgrade. Now it's time to have some fun, which every administrator wants in his/her career.
In this topic, we will discuss the most waited topic of the book, that is the Tomcat upgrade. It's always a wish for the web administrator to perform the upgrade from its previous major version to the new version. It also changes the perception of the administrator from day-to-day maintenance issues to the architecture-level integration. If you are involved in the upgrade activity for the product, then you are the first person in the organization who is working on that product, which gives you better visibility among other people. But before performing the upgrade, let's discuss what new features/updates are offered by Tomcat 7 as compared to Tomcat 6. Following are the features:
Servlet 3.0
Asynchronous support
Dynamic configuration
Extended Servlet API
Simpler, faster, more developer-friendly
Simplified embedding...