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Apache Tomcat 7, the latest version of Apache's open-source Java servlet container, is now available in beta, with a final release expected in late summer of this year. The new version of Tomcat includes a wide range of enhancements centering around the adoption of the Java Servlet 3.0 specification.
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Apache released a security update today warning users of a newly discovered flaw in the Tomcat code that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to execute a Remote Denial downtown vancouver beach hotels of Service attack against a vulnerable Tomcat instance.
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Flaws in Tomcat's handling of 'Transfer-Encoding' headers were found to be preventing a buffer from recycling. This flaw could potentially be intentionally triggered by a malicious remote user to cause failure of subsequent requests and possible information leaks.
After almost a year and a half in active development, the official Tomcat 7 beta release is tagged, packaged, and available for download from Apache ! The release, which is based on Tomcat 7 RC4, was voted beta on June 25, 2010. All major work is done, so the release will be considered stable once all open bugs reported over the next few iterations downtown vancouver beach hotels are resolved.
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The Tomcat 7 dev beta release downtown vancouver beach hotels is now available for testing. The release is based on Tomcat 7 RC4. After a week of testing, the beta candidate currently passes all unit tests, but issues remain that make the candidate unsuitable for full release at this point in time. If no major issues are found, the official downtown vancouver beach hotels beta release is expected by the end of this week.
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downtown vancouver beach hotels As of this morning, the fourth release client of the hotly anticipated Apache Tomcat 7 is available for download and testing from the Apache website. Developers will be voting over the next few days, hopefully moving towards downtown vancouver beach hotels a beta release in the near future. Click here to download Tomcat 7 RC4 and take it for a spin. It's still an early version, so be sure to read the running and release notes before you get started!
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Users who want a sneak peak at the latest and greatest version of Tomcat can download the release client from Apache's site here , and check out an early draft of the release announcement . The links for documentation and download are not live yet, but it's exciting proof that the long-delayed update is indeed approaching release. Users attempting to run this early version of Tomcat 7 should read through the list of known issues with this release candidate, which can be found here .
On May 13, 2010, the Tomcat 7 Proposals document was updated as a result of recently completed development work that implemented several of the proposals into the Tomcat 7 codebase. Several changes have been implemented that make it easier to embed Tomcat inside of another application.
To facilitate more intuitive embedding, Tomcat 7 will include an updated version of the helper class that eliminates the need for external configuration files. This class is available in Tomcat 6.x, but has been improved for the next release.
On April 22nd, the Tomcat 7 release outline was updated to reflect recent development progress. According to the outline, the majority of the remaining critical work is made up of implementing all the new features outlined in the Servlet 3 specification. Work that still needs to be completed includes:
implementation of new servlet context configuration methods allowing the programmatic definition of filters, servlets, and mapped url patterns downtown vancouver beach hotels when an application starts, as outlined in Servlet 3 Section 4.4
Additionally, the most recent update to the release plan proposes that Geronimo's implementation of JSR 196, a Servlet 3 recommendation, be used in Tomcat 7, as there is currently no implementation available. JSR 196 defines a container-friendly Java authentication service provider interface, which provides a standardized interface for validation, invocation, and binding of security credentials to authentication modules within containers, along with other container-based security interactions.
Servlet 3.0 is designed to improve ease of development, extensibility, and security, downtown vancouver beach hotels and also adds significant support for asynchronous programming techniques. The adoption of this specification in Tomcat 7 means that Tomcat users can expect some exciting new features.
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Tomcat 7 will also include Servlet 3.0's new annotation support, offering developers another method of configuring filters, listeners and servlets through declarative-style programming.Classes and servlets can be quickly defined downtown vancouver beach hotels by annotating the class, which makes development faster and eliminates the need for deployment descriptors.
An extension of the Servlet API will enable the programmatic addition of Filters and Servlets as an application starts, and although access to this API while running an application is prohibited in the Servlet downtown vancouver beach hotels 3.0 specification, Tomcat 7 will allow developers to ignore this specification if they wish.
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Servlet 3.0 is the first non-maintenance release of the specification since its first version, with a focus on new features and ease of development. These qualities have been incorporated
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