Apache tomcat implements the java servlet and the javaserver pages (jsp) specifications from sun microsystems, and provides a "pure java" http web server environment for java code to run. tomcat 5.5 is the reference implementation for the java servlet 2.4 and javaserver pages 2.0 technologies.

the official servlet 2.4 and jsp 2.0 specifications can be found at http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/ and http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/.

this package contains the java api documentation.