Tomcat 10 and Jakarta EE
Channel: The ASF
Date: 2020-10-23

Tomcat 10 and Jakarta EE
Mark Thomas

A presentation from ApacheCon @Home 2020
https://apachecon.com/acah2020/

The move of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation and its transformation to Jakarta EE has resulted in some potentially significant changes for end users. The part of this session will look at what the changes are, the impact they have for end users and what the Apache Tomcat project is doing to help mitigate those impacts. In the second part of the session, the current progress of Tomcat 10 towards Jakarta EE 9 support will be discussed along with the expected timeline for a stable Tomcat 10.0 release. The final part of the session will look at Jakarta EE 10, the likely changes and new features and the road map for Jakarta EE 10 support in Apache Tomcat.

I have been an Apache Tomcat committer since November 2003. I initially worked on Tomcat in my free time but since August 2008 I have been employed by SpringSource (now part of VMware) to work on Apache Tomcat. I spend most of my time working on Tomcat but I also work on tc Server, VMware's Servlet & JSP container based on Apache Tomcat. I am the release manager Apache Tomcat 8.5, 9.0 and 10.0 where I try to release a new version every month or so. I am currently focused on Tomcat 10 development which supports Jakarta EE 9. I am a committer for Eclipse Servlet, Server Pages, Expression Language and WebSocket. Elsewhere at the ASF, I am a member of the ASF security and infrastructure teams and I am also on the Commons PMC where I focus on Commons Pool and DBCP. I am a member of the ASF and served as a Director from 2016 to 2019. I have held the position of VP, Brand Management since February 2018.