Tomcat 11 and Jakarta EE 11

Описание: Apache Tomcat implements the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket and Jakarta Authentication specifications. Jakarta EE 11 is due for release in the first half of 2024 with the first stable Tomcat 11 release expected shortly afterwards.

This session will look at the changes in Jakarta EE 11 for the specifications that Tomcat implements and what these changes mean for developers looking to deploying their application on Tomcat 11.0.

This session will also look at the other new features introduced to Tomcat with Tomcat 11 including virtual thread support, automatic TLS certificate reloading, a rate limit filter and support for OpenSSL via Foreign Function Memory support with Java 22 onwards.

Mark Thomas
Tomcat PMC member

Mark has been an Apache Tomcat committer since November 2003. He initially worked on Tomcat in his free time but since August 2008 he has been employed by SpringSource (now part of Broadcom) to work on Tomcat. He spends most of his time working on Tomcat but he also works on Tanzu tc Server, Broadcom's Servlet & JSP container based on Tomcat.

Mark is the release manager for Tomcat 11.0 where he tries to release a new version every month or so. He is currently focused on Tomcat 11.0 development which will support Jakarta EE 11. He is a committer for Jakarta Servlet, Server Pages, Expression Language and WebSocket.

Elsewhere at the ASF, he is a member of the ASF security and infrastructure teams and he is also on the Commons PMC where he focuses on Commons Pool and DBCP.

Mark is a member of the ASF and served as a Director from 2016 to 2019. He has held the position of VP, Brand Management since February 2018.