<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> <!DOCTYPE document [ <!ENTITY project SYSTEM "project.xml"> ]> <document url="index.html"> &project; <properties> <author email="craigmcc@apache.org">Craig R. McClanahan</author> <title>Table of Contents</title> </properties> <body> <section name="Catalina Functional Specifications"> <p>This documentation area includes <em>functional specifications</em> for many features supported by the <strong>Catalina</strong> servlet container portion of Tomcat 6. In most cases, these features are not documented in the underlying Servlet or JSP specifications, so a definition of the expected correct behavior is important both to implementors of those features, and to test writers trying to decide what to test.</p> <p>The functional specifications are divided into the following categories in the menu (to the left):</p> <ul> <li><em>Administrative Apps</em> - Overall requirements for supporting an ability to configure and operate a Tomcat 6 installation through tools, as well as detailed requirements for the tools themselves.</li> <li><em>Internal Servlets</em> - Requirements for Catalina features that are implemented as internal, container-managed, servlets.</li> <li><em>Realm Implementations</em> - Requirements for the implementations of the <code>org.apache.catalina.Realm</code> interface (providing access to collections of users, passwords and roles) that are included in the standard Tomcat 6 distribution.</li> </ul> <p><em>NOTE</em> - In some cases, the contents of these functional specs has been "reverse engineered" from existing implementations. This exercise is still useful, because it provides an introduction to <strong>what</strong> Catalina does, without being as concerned with <strong>how</strong> this is accomplished.</p> <p><strong>TODO</strong> - Obviously, this area has a long ways to go before it is complete. Contributions are welcome!</p> </section> </body> </document>