tomcat 5 EOL & tomcat 8

[hazendaz]

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-55-eol.html

Tomcat 5 was end of life quite some time ago. I think it might be time to drop official support in upcoming releases for tomcat 5.

Tomcat 8 is out but still in beta. However, it is being run over at apache on the jiras so production ready. I have taken a copy of tomcat 7 version of waffle and started getting it built out for tomcat 8. Not sure how long this will take me to finalize. I do have it building without errors but need to test :)

[dblock]

Yes, lets do that. Down with dropping Tomcat 5. I would talk about it in README somewhere in the lines of "use version xyz of Waffle if you're on Tomcat 5" or "use a filter".

[mcarans]

Happy to hear Tomcat 8 support is in the works. 👍

[hazendaz]

Updated to tomcat 8.0.8 build.

[hazendaz]

Waffle 1.7 will continue to have tomcat 5 support. I'm trying to figure out a way to enhance the library overall in tomcat area so there are not so many different versions since nearly all the code is duplicated. Closing this for now and will reopen later when more appropriate solution appears :) Tomcat 8 is officially out of beta so version 1.7 of waffle will have that support. It has been ready for a little while now.