Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are developed by Sun under the Java Community Process.
Tomcat is developed in a participatory and open environment and released under the Apache Software License.
Tomcat is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Catalina:
· Provide constants for commonly used Charset objects and use these constants where appropriate. (markt)
· Refactor the fix for 52184 to correct two issues (a missing class and incorrect class/method names) when using the extras logging packages. (markt)
· 52444: Only load classes during HandlesTypes processing if the class is a match. Previously, every class in the web application was loaded regardless of whether it was a match or not. (markt)
· 52488: Correct typo: exipre -> expire. (markt)
· Add a unit test for SSO authentication. Patch provided by Brian Burch. (markt)
· 52511: Correct regression in the fix for 51741 that caused a harmless exception to be logged when scanning for annotations and WEB-INF/classes did not exist. (markt)
· Refactor to remove a circular dependency between org.apache.catalina and org.apache.naming. (markt)
· Remove some initialisation code from the standard start process (i.e. via the scripts) that was intended for embedding but is not required when performin...