What containers has Cactus been tested on?

Tested on ...

Cactus is supposed to work on any J2EE 1.2 and 1.3 compliant servers. However, we have found in the past that some containers were displaying some weird behaviours (and that there were also bugs in Cactus that were making it non 100% spec-compliant - we have corrected all of these and are not aware of any problem at this time).

This page shows the different versions of servers that have been reported to work fine with Cactus. By working we mean that the Cactus sample application ran fine.

If you have tested Cactus on a configuration that is not listed below, please send an email to the Cactus user mailing list with [TestedOn] in the subject.

Cactus 1.5

Server Versions J2EE APIs Note
Resin 2.1.4, 2.1.8, 2.1.9 1.2, 1.3
Resin 2.1.6, 2.1.10 1.3
Tomcat 3.3.1, 3.3.1a 1.2
Tomcat 4.0.6, 4.1.18, 4.1.24 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 5.0.2-alpha 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 5.0.3-alpha 1.2, 1.3 One test from the Cactus test suite is failing: testGetRequestDispatcherFromNamedDispatcherOK.
JBoss/Jetty 3.0.7, 3.2.0, 3.2.1 1.3
JBoss/Tomcat 3.2.1 1.3
Orion 1.6.0b, 2.0.1 1.2, 1.3 Does not work under JDK version 1.4 or later

Cactus 1.4

Server Versions J2EE APIs Note
Resin 2.1.4 1.3
Resin 2.1.0, 2.1.2 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.2.4 1.2
Tomcat 4.0.4 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.3.1 1.2
Tomcat 4.1.7 beta 1.3 A NullPointerException is raised when stopping Tomcat.
Tomcat 4.1.9 beta 1.3
Orion 1.5.4, 1.6.0 1.2, 1.3
WebLogic 6.1 SP3, 7.0 1.2, 1.3

Cactus 1.3

Server Versions J2EE APIs Note
Resin 2.0.5, 2.1.0 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3 1.2, 1.3
Tomcat 3.3.1 1.2
Tomcat 3.2.4 1.2
WebLogic 6.1 1.2, 1.3
Orion 1.5.2, 1.5.4 1.2, 1.3

Fails on ...

Some containers have some issues which prevent them from running the Cactus sample application tests.

Server Versions J2EE APIs Reason
Enhydra 3.3.1 b1 1.2 Enhydra does not seem to support BASIC authentication as defined by the Servlet specifications and thus the Sample tests which use security fail. All other tests run fine and thus if you don't need to test secure code, you should be fine with Enhydra 3.3.1 b1.