– When starting Tomcat with the jpda option to enable remote debugging, Tomcat 8 listens on localhost:8000 by default. There are a number of notable changes between Commons DBCP 1.x and Commons DBCP 2.x – Tomcat 8 embeds a packaged renamed version of Commons DBCP 2.x.

– The Aliases, VirtualLoader, VirtualDirContext, JAR resources and external repositories features that all provided a way to add resources to a web application have been replaced with a single framework rather than each being implemented separately. – The default HTTP and AJP connector implementation has switched from the Java blocking IO implementation (BIO) to the Java non-blocking IO implementation (NIO) – Apache Tomcat 8 supports the Java Servlet 3.1, JavaServer Pages 2.3, Java Unified Expression Language 3.0 and Java WebSocket 1.0 specifications. – Apache Tomcat 8.0.x requires Java 7 or later.

Apache Tomcat 8 Download can be done from here .īelow are few key changes from Tomcat 7.x to Tomcat 8.x Apache has released its latest tomcat 8 with Java 7 support which include this enhancements as mentioned in Tomcat 8 change logs.

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