New Apache Tomcat released

Tomcat 5.5, the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) next-generation Java server, has been officially released. According to InternetNews.com, the ASF claims that Tomcat is unquestionably the most popular Java Server to ever hail from the gates of the ASF.

Tomcat is one of the most popular and widely used applications to ever come out of the Apache Software Foundation and is arguably the most popular open source java server technology as well. The Apache Software Foundation bills Tomcat as,”..the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies.”

Tomcat takes JSP (define), JSPX, TAG, and TAGX files and converts them to Java source code (scriplets). The speed at which a compiler can compile that code is critical and in many cases will directly impact application performance.