2015-09-10 10:13 GMT+02:00 jean-frederic clere <jfcl...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I have a wording questions from my ApacheCon presentations, I am using > tomcat9 to speak about trunk but basically tomcat9 should be with java9 and > the new servlet specifications. AKA far future. >
I'm not sure it will require Java 9. Using ALPN would require either Java 9 or OpenSSL, I think that is going to be the most likely scenario, so Java 8 would remain quite usable. > > It will be probably interesting to promote an intermediate tomcat version > with HTTP/2 and related features but without a servlet 4.0 do we want to > do that? > Yes, the problem is that the next EE is too far away. A new 8.x would have to supersede the current 8.0 though otherwise it would be too difficult for maintenance. However, there are significant addition/changes to the configuration in trunk. Rémy