This document is a living list of the action items related to the current development of the Catalina servlet container architecture for Tomcat 4.0.

The columns in this report contain the following information:

• Priority - A sense of how important the Tomcat development community feels it is to address this issue in the short term.
• Action Item - Concise description of the action item to be completed. Where relevant, Java package names of the primary classes involved are listed in [square brackets]
• Volunteers - Names and EMAIL addresses of those developers who have volunteered to assist in the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of this action item's changes to Tomcat.

Additions to, subtractions from, and changes to the action items listed here should be discussed and approved on the TOMCAT-DEV mailing list, as described on the Decision Making page on the Jakarta Project web site. Developers can nominate themselves to work on particular action items by asking a Committer to add their name and EMAIL address to those items. The developers working on each item should discuss and agree upon the approach to be used for implementing the item's changes to the project source code and documentation, prior to completing those changes. Such discussions should take place on the TOMCAT-DEV mailing list so that everyone can stay apprised of what is going on, or chime in if they want to contribute ideas and suggestions.

For convenience, the action items have been organized into general categories, which are presented in alphabetical order. The following categories of actions are currently identified:

• Architecture of the overall server
• Connectors to web servers and HTTP clients
• Core servlet engine functionality
• Server Administration functionality
• Servlet provided functionality
• Session Management functionality
• Utility component functionality
• Valve provided functionality