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| 771 | blopes | 1 | ## Welcome to Apache Tomcat! |
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| 3 | ### What Is It? |
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| 5 | The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Java |
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| 6 | Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket |
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| 7 | technologies. The Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and |
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| 8 | Java WebSocket specifications are developed under the |
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| 9 | [Java Community Process](https://jcp.org/en/introduction/overview). |
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| 11 | The Apache Tomcat software is developed in an open and participatory |
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| 12 | environment and released under the |
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| 13 | [Apache License version 2](https://www.apache.org/licenses/). The Apache Tomcat |
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| 14 | project is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from |
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| 15 | around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development |
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| 16 | project. To learn more about getting involved, |
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| 17 | [click here](https://tomcat.apache.org/getinvolved.html) or keep reading. |
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| 19 | Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web |
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| 20 | applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of |
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| 21 | these users and their stories are listed on the |
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| 22 | [PoweredBy wiki page](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/PoweredBy). |
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| 24 | Apache Tomcat, Tomcat, Apache, the Apache feather, and the Apache Tomcat |
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| 25 | project logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation. |
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| 27 | ### Get It |
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| 29 | For every major Tomcat version there is one download page containing |
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| 30 | links to the latest binary and source code downloads, but also |
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| 31 | links for browsing the download directories and archives: |
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| 32 | - [Tomcat 11](https://tomcat.apache.org/download-11.cgi) |
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| 33 | - [Tomcat 10](https://tomcat.apache.org/download-10.cgi) |
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| 34 | - [Tomcat 9](https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi) |
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| 36 | To facilitate choosing the right major Tomcat version one, we have provided a |
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| 37 | [version overview page](https://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html). |
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| 39 | ### Documentation |
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| 41 | The documentation available as of the date of this release is |
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| 42 | included in the docs webapp which ships with tomcat. You can access that webapp |
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| 43 | by starting tomcat and visiting <http://localhost:8080/docs/> in your browser. |
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| 44 | The most up-to-date documentation for each version can be found at: |
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| 45 | - [Tomcat 11](https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-11.0-doc/) |
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| 46 | - [Tomcat 10](https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/) |
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| 47 | - [Tomcat 9](https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/) |
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| 49 | ### Installation |
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| 51 | Please see [RUNNING.txt](RUNNING.txt) for more info. |
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| 53 | ### Licensing |
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| 55 | Please see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more info. |
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| 57 | ### Support and Mailing List Information |
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| 59 | * Free community support is available through the |
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| 60 | [tomcat-users](https://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users) email list and |
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| 61 | a dedicated [IRC channel](https://tomcat.apache.org/irc.html) (#tomcat on |
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| 62 | Freenode). |
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| 64 | * If you want freely available support for running Apache Tomcat, please see the |
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| 65 | resources page [here](https://tomcat.apache.org/findhelp.html). |
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| 67 | * If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, |
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| 68 | security fixes, general news and information about Apache Tomcat, please |
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| 69 | subscribe to the |
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| 70 | [tomcat-announce](https://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-announce) email |
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| 71 | list. |
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| 73 | * If you have a concrete bug report for Apache Tomcat, please see the |
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| 74 | instructions for reporting a bug |
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| 75 | [here](https://tomcat.apache.org/bugreport.html). |
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| 77 | ### Contributing |
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| 79 | Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more info. |