The 5.x series releases implement the Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications.

Tomcat 5.x improves on Tomcat 4.1 in many ways, including:

• Performance optimizations and reduced garbage collection.
• Refactored application deployer, with an optional standalone deployer allowing validation and compilation of a web application before putting it in production.
• Complete server monitoring using JMX and the manager web application.
• Scalability and reliability enhancements.
• Improved Taglibs handling, including advanced pooling and tag plugins.
• Improved platform integration, with native Windows and Unix wrappers.
• Embedding of Tomcat using JMX.
• Enhanced Security Manager support.
• Integrated session clustering.
• Expanded documentation.

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