Tomcat 6 Resources
The current version of Apache Tomcat is based on the 6.x branch. The latest version that was released in Feb, 2010 is 6.0.24. For details on what is included in 6.0.24, please read this blog post by Jason Brittain, author of Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. The prior branched version 5.5 is also being maintained by the Apache Tomcat committers.
Currently the Tomcat team is actively working on Tomcat 7.0, which will include several new features.
Tomcat 6.0 runs on JSE 5.0 and later. Tomcat 6.0 also uses Eclipse JDT Java compiler for compiling JSP, which removes the dependency on having a full JDK install to run Tomcat.
Tomcat 6 resources are provided as a public service by MuleSoft. Tomcat 6 was released by the Apache Software Foundation in December 2006, and boasts enhanced performance and improved stability over prior versions of Apache Tomcat. With Servlet 2.5 and Java ServerPages 2.1 implemented, the parsing of Java ServerPages has been significantly sped up.



