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Welcome to Apache Tomcat!

What Is It?

The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages, Jakarta Expression Language and Jakarta WebSocket technologies. The Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages, Jakarta Expression Language and Jakarta WebSocket specifications are developed as part of the Jakarta EE Platform.

The Apache Tomcat software is developed in an open and participatory environment and released under the Apache License version 2. The Apache Tomcat project is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development project. To learn more about getting involved, click here or keep reading.

Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page.

Apache Tomcat, Tomcat, Apache, the Apache feather, and the Apache Tomcat project logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation.

Get It

For every major Tomcat version there is one download page containing links to the latest binary and source code downloads, but also links for browsing the download directories and archives:

To facilitate choosing the right major Tomcat version one, we have provided a version overview page.

Documentation

The documentation available as of the date of this release is included in the docs webapp which ships with tomcat. You can access that webapp by starting tomcat and visiting http://localhost:8080/docs/ in your browser. The most up-to-date documentation for each version can be found at:

Installation

Please see RUNNING.txt for more info.

Licensing

Please see LICENSE for more info.

Support and Mailing List Information

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for more info.