Tomcat Websocket Implementation

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I'm looking into a solution that will make extensive use of websockets. Details are unimportant, but here's the question that I'd like to have some insight into. The current implementation (official example) seems independent of the JSR 356.
Is work underway to implement the javax.websocket.* objects, or is what's in org.apache.catalina.websocket it for the enforceable future?

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posted Aug 2, 2013 by Amit Parthsarthi

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Tomcat 8 has a completed (though not yet fully tested and vetted) implementation of JSR-356.

Though Tomcat 8 is the only Tomcat that will support the Servlet, JSP, and EL specifications included in Java EE 7 (they will not be back-ported to Tomcat 7), a decision was made a while ago to deprecate the existing Tomcat 7 WebSocket implementation and back-port JSR-356 to Tomcat 7. This is the only Java EE 7 component that will be back-ported to Tomcat 7, AFAIK. I don't personally know this will happen (I'm not one of the developers), but since the JSR-356 implementation in Tomcat 8 is complete now, it shouldn't be too long.

If you want to play with the JSR-356 implementation for now, feel free to download and use Tomcat 8 RC1 when it releases in (hopefully) the next few days. We encourage it, because the more people who download it and try it out, the better our chances of chasing down and fixing bugs now instead of after a general release.

answer Aug 2, 2013 by Salil Agrawal

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