Apache has released stable version of Tomcat 8 on June 25, 2014. Which is available for download on itsofficial site. Apache tomcat 8 has upgraded some features. Below are few details about Tomcat 8.
- Tomcat 8 requires JAVA 7 to work.
- Tomcat 8 supports Java Servlet 3.1
- Tomcat 8 supports JavaServer Pages 2.3
- Tomcat 8 supports Java Unified Expression Language 3.0
- Tomcat 8 supports Java WebSocket 1.0
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