This document is a living list of the action items related to the current and future development of the Tomcat servlet container. As such, it focuses primarily on enhancements to existing features, as well as the addition of new features. Bugs in the implementation of existing features should be reported to http://jakarta.apache.org/bugs so that they can be tracked and fixed. 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.
• Release - The interim or final release (such as 3.2m2) for which this action item is scheduled to be completed.
• Action Item - Concise description of the action item to be completed.
• 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.

At various points in time, particular action items will be selected and assigned to a particular interim release of Tomcat (based on lazy consensus on the TOMCAT-DEV mailing list). At that time, the assigned release will be recorded in this document, and the item will be listed under that release in the current RELEASE-PLAN schedule.

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 major Tomcat components
• Administration application and tools
• Connectors to web servers and HTTP clients
• Containers in the Tomcat core engine
• JSP functionality enhancements
• Servlet functionality enhancements

NOTE: In addition to this list of action items related to the main CVS source branch for the jakarta-tomcat subproject, a number of people have expressed interest in working on the Catalina architecture. To facilitate tracking of these efforts, a separate STATUS document is maintained in the proposals/catalina subdirectory.