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This is a reference page that provides links to specifications, implemented by Apache Tomcat.
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This is a reference page that provides links to specifications, implemented by Apache Tomcat.
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Web Application Specifications
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The specifications are developed and maintained by the Java Community Process (JCP). The members of the JCP are coming from software industry, other organizations like the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), educational institutions but include also individual (personal) members.
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Different Tomcat versions implement different versions of the specifications (see main site, wiki).
Java Servlet Specifications
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Spec versions: | Servlet 4.0 |
Main page: | |
Java.net project: | servlet-spec |
Stable: | Final Release |
Date: | 05 Sept, 2017 |
Download Page: | |
Online Javadoc: | Java EE 8 (A javaee.github.io link. Not available at docs.oracle.com?) |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 9.0.0 |
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Spec versions: | Servlet 3.1 |
Main page: | |
Java.net project: | |
Stable: | Final Release |
Date: | 28 May, 2013 |
Download Page: | |
Online Javadoc: | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 8.0.0 |
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Spec versions: | Servlet 3.0 | |
Main page: | JSR315 | |
Stable: | Final Release | Maintenance Release (Version 3.0 Rev a) |
Date: | 10 Dec, 2009 | 6 Feb, 2011 |
Download Page: | Overview Direct Download | Overview Change Log Direct Download - PDF |
Online Javadoc: | Java EE 6 | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 7.0.0 | 7.0.25 |
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Spec versions: | Servlet 2.5 | |
Main page: | ||
Stable: | Maintenance Release | Maintenance Release 2 |
Date: | 11 May, 2006 | 11 Sep, 2007 |
Download Page: | Overview Direct Download - PDF | |
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Minimum Tomcat version: | 6.0.0 | 6.0.44 (bug 57703) |
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Spec versions: | Servlet 2.4 |
Main page: | |
Stable: | Final Release |
Date: | 24 Nov, 2003 |
Download Page: | |
Online Javadoc: | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 5.0.0 |
JavaServer Pages and Expression Language Specifications
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Specification: | JSP 2.3 | EL 3.0 |
Main page: | JSR245 | JSR341 |
Java.net project: | jsp-spec-public ? | el-spec |
Stable: | Maintenance Release 2 The naming is according to JSR 245. The title page of the JSP specification document says "Maintenace Release 3" | Final Release |
Date: | 12 Jun, 2013 | 22 May, 2013 |
Download Page: | Overview Direct Download | Overview Direct Download |
Online Javadoc: | Java EE 7, Java EE 8 | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 8.0.0 |
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Spec versions: | JSP 2.2, EL 2.2 |
Main page: | |
Stable: | Maintenance Release The naming is according to JSR 245. The title page of the |
Date: | 10 Dec, 2009 |
Download Page: | |
Online Javadoc: | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 7.0.0 |
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Spec versions: | JSP 2.1 |
Main page: | |
Stable: | Final Release |
Date: | 11 May, 2006 |
Download Page: | |
Online Javadoc: | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 6.0.0 |
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Spec versions: | JSP 2.0 |
Main page: | |
Stable: | Final Release |
Date: | 24 November, 2003 |
Download Page: | |
Online Javadoc: | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 5.0.0 |
Java API for WebSocket
Java API for WebSocket is JSR 356. An implementation is to be included in Tomcat 8. See also Bug 51181.
Since Tomcat 7.0.47 this implementation is included with Tomcat 7, but it is only available if Tomcat is run with Java 7 or later.
Spec versions: | Java API for WebSocket 1.0 | Java API for WebSocket 1.1 |
Main page: | ||
Java.net project: | websocket-spec | |
Stable: | Final Release | Maintenance Release |
Date: | 22 May, 2013 | 5 August, 2014 |
Download Page: | ||
Online Javadoc: | ||
Minimum Tomcat version: | 7.0.47, 8.0.0 | 7.0.56, 8.0.13 |
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Spec versions: | JASPIC 1.0 | JASPIC 1.1 |
Main page: | JSR196 | |
Java.net project: | jaspic-spec | |
Stable: | Final Release | Maintenance Release B |
Date: | 10 Oct, 2007 | 12 Jun, 2013 |
Download Page: | ||
Online Javadoc: | Java EE 7 | |
Minimum Tomcat version: | 8.5.0 |
See Also
Protocol Specifications
The following are specifications for the web protocols supported by Tomcat.
HTTP, HTTP/2
HTTP 0.9 | The Original HTTP as defined in 1991 at W3.org |
HTTP/1.0 | |
HTTP/1.1 | RFC 2068 (January 1997) - obsolete, replaced by 2616 RFC 7230 (June 2014) - Message Syntax and Routing |
HTTP/2 | RFC 7540 (May 2015) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) HTTP/2 home page, maintained by the IETF HTTPbis Working Group |
HTTP - Related Specifications
"HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication" It was updated by RFC 7235. | |
"HTTP State Management Mechanism" The specification about cookies. It is implemented by org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Rfc6265CookieProcessor that is available since Tomcat 8.0.15 and is the default one starting with Tomcat 8.5.0. See also "Cookies" page in "Development and Development Issues / Archive" on this wiki. | |
RFC 6266 | "Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)" Content-Disposition header is used by file uploads. See also Bug 59115 |
draft-thomson-hybi-http-timeout-03 | "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Keep-Alive Header". A draft of specification. Support for sending a Keep-Alive response header was added in Tomcat 8.5.48, 9.0.29 — Bug 63835. This feature can be turned off via an attribute on HTTP/1.1 Connector. |
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The AJP protocol specification lives on the Apache Tomcat Connector web site.
WebSocket
WebSocket protocol is specified by RFC 6455.
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