| ## Welcome to Apache Tomcat! |
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| ### What Is It? |
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| The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Java |
| Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket |
| technologies. The Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and |
| Java WebSocket specifications are developed under the |
| [Java Community Process](http://jcp.org/en/introduction/overview). |
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| The Apache Tomcat software is developed in an open and participatory |
| environment and released under the |
| [Apache License version 2](http://www.apache.org/licenses/). The Apache Tomcat |
| project is intended to be a collaboration of the best-of-breed developers from |
| around the world. We invite you to participate in this open development |
| project. To learn more about getting involved, |
| [click here](http://tomcat.apache.org/getinvolved.html) or keep reading. |
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| Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web |
| applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of |
| these users and their stories are listed on the |
| [PoweredBy wiki page](http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/PoweredBy). |
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| Apache Tomcat, Tomcat, Apache, the Apache feather, and the Apache Tomcat |
| project logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation. |
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| ### The Latest Version |
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| The current latest version in this branch (trunk) can be found on the [Tomcat 9.0](https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi) page. |
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| ### Documentation |
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| The documentation available as of the date of this release is |
| included in the docs webapp which ships with tomcat. You can access that webapp |
| by starting tomcat and visiting http://localhost:8080/docs/ in your browser. |
| The most up-to-date documentation can be found at |
| http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/. |
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| ### Installation |
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| Please see [RUNNING.txt](RUNNING.txt) for more info. |
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| ### Licensing |
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| Please see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more info. |
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| ### Support and Mailing List Information |
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| * Free community support is available through the |
| [tomcat-users](http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users) email list and |
| a dedicated [IRC channel](http://tomcat.apache.org/irc.html) (#tomcat on |
| Freenode). |
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| * If you want freely available support for running Apache Tomcat, please see the |
| resources page [here](http://tomcat.apache.org/findhelp.html). |
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| * If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes, |
| security fixes, general news and information about Apache Tomcat, please |
| subscribe to the |
| [tomcat-announce](http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-announce) email |
| list. |
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| * If you have a concrete bug report for Apache Tomcat, please see the |
| instructions for reporting a bug |
| [here](http://tomcat.apache.org/bugreport.html). |
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| ### Contributing |
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| Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more info. |
