One of those new features is non-blocking I/O.

The Servlet 3.1 is an incremental update that includes a couple new features and further clarifications to the specification. Interested in hearing more? Come to SpringOne2GX in Santa Clara, CA from Sept 9-12 and attend the Apache Tomcat 8 Preview session given by Pivotal’s own Daniel Mikusa and Stuart Williams. In addition, there is support for a new specification, Java WebSocket 1.0. For reference, the following specifications have been supported: Thomas, who served as release manager for this project, had previously clarified, “As the work on the specifications proceeds, and, as the changes firm up, then those changes will be implemented in the Tomcat 8 branch.”

This work actually occurs in parallel, working to solidify the specifications as well as the build in tandem with key contributors working on both the Java specification as well as Apache projects.

This release aligns Tomcat to the Java EE 7 specification, including Java Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.3, and Java Unified Expression Language (EL) 3.0. Yesterday, Pivotal’s own Mark Thomas had an exciting announcement on the Apache Tomcat mailing lists: the first release candidate of Tomcat 8 is now available!Īfter 2 years of development, this release has been made available as an alpha and while it is not recommended for production use, it certainly contains many features developers will be keen to try out.Īs with all major releases of Tomcat, each of the Java specifications it supports have also been updated.

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