A busy week at Jakarta as Tomcat 5.5 and Struts 1.2.2 come out

It's been a busy week at the Apache Jakarta Project. Struts 1.2.2 officially came out yesterday, as Pavel Kolesnikov reported in Struts 1.2.2 is out. Within hours, bugs in 1.2.2 forced the team to put out
1.2.3.

As if that weren't enough, the first release of version 5.5 of Tomcat, the popular servlet container and web server, is out. Surprisingly, the developers built and tuned this version for Java 5.0 (formerly 1.5). Fortunately, 5.5 should still run on older Java versions.

Another new feature worth mentioning is the bundled Eclipse JDT compiler. A plain JRE is now enough to run Tomcat. The discussion Tomcat 5.5 is on the Prowl also mentions improvements to logging, diagnostics, and clustering.