Yaa, I have same question, when released new version of Tiger?
Because I use NetBeans which need Tiger and I must compiled under 1.4 because I got :
javax.servlet.ServletException: (class: os/tags/FileExistsTag, method: getFilePath signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;) Incompatible object argument for function call
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:867)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:800)
org.apache.jsp.pages.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:103)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:311)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
root cause
java.lang.VerifyError: (class: os/tags/FileExistsTag, method: getFilePath signature: (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;) Incompatible object argument for function call
java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:155)
org.apache.jsp.pages.index_jsp.class$(index_jsp.java:71)
org.apache.jsp.pages.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:71)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:133)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:311)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:301)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:248)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
I think, it's about permission because I know that Tiger has better security than 1.4.
May be my tomcat has classpath to my old 1.4, but it's not important. Bug is here. Backward compatibility must be ok.