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.