从http://tomcat.apache.org发布来看,有这么一段话.
The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the next release candidate for Apache Tomcat 8 - 8.0.0-RC5 (alpha). Tomcat 8 is aligned with Java EE 7. In addition to supporting updated versions of the Java EE specifications, Tomcat 8 includes a number of improvements compared to Tomcat 7. The notable changes include:
Apache Tomcat 8.0.0-RC5 includes numerous fixes for issues identified in RC3 as well as a number of other enhancements and changes. The notable changes since RC1 include:
Full details of these changes, and all the other changes, are available in the Tomcat 8 changelog.
The purpose of this release candidate is to give users an opportunity to test Tomcat 8 and provide feedback to the Tomcat community. It has been given an alpha status which means that it is not judged as being ready for production usage. The implementations of the 4 Java EE 7 specifications are all complete but there is some internal refactoring to be completed before the alpha label is removed.
Tomcat 8 is aligned with Java EE 7.应该翻译成tomcat 8向java ee 7对齐.即使不完全实现,但觉得可以满足大多数的需要.
tomcat 8 rc5的lib目录下含有javaee类的lib包有annotations-api,el-api,jsp-api,servlet-api,websocket-api(以api.jar结尾的除了tomcat-api.jar)