Using Tomcat 6 with a relational database?

Quick show of hands: is there anyone using Tomcat 6 with Orbeon Forms and a relational database, and who wouldn't be able to upgrade to Tomcat 7?

The reason for this question is that Tomcat 7 supports JDBC 4, and requiring it would significantly simplify some of our code, so we're considering to just require Tomcat 7 if using JDBC. (Support for other app server would be unchanged, assuming they support JDBC 4.)

Alex

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Hi Bruno,

Thanks for the feedback. I also heard from other organizations who also use Tomcat 6 in production, and must conclude it is too early to drop the support for Tomcat 6. And keeping the Tomcat 6 support ended up not really being a problem after all.

Alex

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Hi Bruno,

I would be surprised if it makes a difference from a performance perspective. It is more a question of new, better APIs being available, which makes our work easier. In particular, JDBC 4 (supported by Tomcat 7) has an app-server independent way to get to the native driver objects, while earlier we had to write app-server dependent code.

Alex