[Sheflug] Version of Tomcat in Intrepid Ibex?

[Tom Burke <tom_burke@xxxxxxx>]

Hello the list!

I wonder if anyone who has downloaded and installed Intrepid Ibex can  
help me with a Tomcat question? I gather that Tomcat is included in  
Intrepid, and that's it's Tomcat 6. Unfortunately I need to know the  
actual sub-release; e.g. 6.0.10, 6.0.18, or whatever. I have asked  
this on the Ubuntu forums, but the reply I've received essentially  
says "it's Tomcat 6....".

The reason behind this is that there was a change to how Tomcat parses  
certain Java expressions - apparently (the developers tell me) some  
very slightly loose Java coding usage (which ran fine)  had been  
allowed in Tomcat 4, 5, and 5.5, but was supposed to be fixed in  
Tomcat 6. In the event this didn't in fact happen, until Tomcat  
6.0.17. In practice the use of the loose coding usage was very common,  
and many developers have found that as a result their apps won't run  
(or run with errors) in Tomcat 6.0.17 and later (until they amend the  
code). This has bitten us, of course, so we are staying on versions of  
Tomcat prior to 6.0.17 - on our production servers we have  
standardised on 6.0.10. So it would be helpful to know which sub- 
release of Tomcat is in Intrepid to help me decide whether to download  
that or Heron. (I know that Tomcat isn't in Heron by default, but I  
have instructions on how to get specific versions of Tomcat for Heron.)

Tom Burke

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