Support embedding Tomcat 9

[mrcasablr]

Tomcat 9.0.4 is now released as the first stable release. - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201801.mbox/

9.0.5 is available - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201802.mbox/browser

[wilkinsona]

While it’s described as stable, the release notes state that all of the public API is still subject to change. As far as I can tell, official Tomcat 9 support will have to wait for Boot 2.1.

[shakuzen]

the release notes state that all of the public API is still subject to change.

Sharing in case others wonder (I did) where this is stated: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

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API Stability:
==============

The public interfaces for the following classes are fixed and will not be
changed at all during the remaining lifetime of the 9.x series:
- None

The public interfaces for the following classes may be added to in order to
resolve bugs and/or add new features. No existing interface method will be
removed or changed although it may be deprecated.
- None

Note: As Tomcat 9 matures, the above list will be added to. The list is not
considered complete at this time.

The remaining classes are considered part of the Tomcat internals and may change
without notice between point releases.

[mrcasablr]

@wilkinsona based on the above link on API stability, would you still like to keep this for 2.1?

[wilkinsona]

Why would it change? Those are the release notes that I referred to in my original comment on this issue. We need the public interfaces of Tomcat’s externals to be fixed before we can upgrade. It’ll be 2.1 at the earliest.

[shakuzen]

Just sharing that as of Tomcat 9.0.5, 9.0.x API Stability matches 8.5.x API stability.

==============
API Stability:
==============

The public interfaces for the following classes are fixed and will not be
changed at all during the remaining lifetime of the 8.x series:
- All classes in the javax namespace

The public interfaces for the following classes may be added to in order to
resolve bugs and/or add new features. No existing interface method will be
removed or changed although it may be deprecated.
- org.apache.catalina.* (excluding sub-packages)

[sigzero]

Support of 8.X is EOL in June. I hope that's being tracked.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-80-eol.html

[wilkinsona]

It’s not 8.x, but 8.0.x. Boot 1.5 and 2.0 use 8.5.x so are unaffected by that EOL announcement.