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Features in Tomcat 7 – Updates and improvements
With new version of Tomcat, 7.0.12, several new features were introduced while other enhanced.
Overall service improvement is significant toward prior versions so through some working examples they'll be described in review below.
So, let's see which features are introduced as new ones and which ones been enhanced and improved from last version.
New features
1.Preventing cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks with use of nonce
2.Changing the jsessionid on authentication to prevent session fixation attacks altogether
3.Memory leak detection and prevention
4.Storage of static content outside the war file with use of aliases