The mapping between the specifications and the respective Apache Tomcat versions is:
Servlet Spec |
JSP Spec |
EL Spec |
WebSocket Spec |
JASPIC Spec |
Apache Tomcat version |
Actual release revision |
Supported Java Versions |
4.0 |
TBD (2.4?) |
TBD (3.1?) |
TBD (1.2?) |
1.1 |
9.0.x |
9.0.0.M9 (alpha) |
8 and later |
3.1 |
2.3 |
3.0 |
1.1 |
1.1 |
8.5.x |
8.5.4 |
7 and later |
3.1 |
2.3 |
3.0 |
1.1 |
N/A |
8.0.x (superseded) |
8.0.35 (superseded) |
7 and later |
3.0 |
2.2 |
2.2 |
1.1 |
N/A |
7.0.x |
7.0.70 |
6 and later (7 and later for WebSocket) |
2.5 |
2.1 |
2.1 |
N/A |
N/A |
6.0.x |
6.0.45 |
5 and later |
2.4 |
2.0 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
5.5.x (archived) |
5.5.36 (archived) |
1.4 and later |
2.3 |
1.2 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
4.1.x (archived) |
4.1.40 (archived) |
1.3 and later |
2.2 |
1.1 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
3.3.x (archived) |
3.3.2 (archived) |
1.1 and later |
web.xml v2.3
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2 <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems,Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
3
4 <web-app5
6 </>
web.xml v2.4
xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"web-app id="WebApp_9" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
3 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
4 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"