On 10/12/2012 15:42, Eugen Paraschiv wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a quick question about the exact version of the servlet library
> packaged with Tomcat 7, and maybe the overall servlet spec.
> Tomcat comes with it's own, custom build jar, published here on Maven
> central:
> http://search.maven.org/#browse|555734385
> Is there a separation between the implementation of the spec and the
> contract?

Yes. That JAR is the specification. The implementation is in (some of)
the other JARs.

> More to the point - is there a way Tomcat could use a standard
> version of the servlet jar (for which it has it's own internal
> implementation)?

In theory, you could replace servlet-api.jar with any other Servlet 3.0
JAR that passed the TCK. The question is why would you want to?

Mark


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