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Version 8.0.39,
<time datetime="2016-11-09">Nov 9 2016</time></div><div style="height: 1px;"></div><div style="clear: left;"></div></div></div></div></header><div id="middle"><div><div id="mainLeft" class="noprint"><div><nav><div><h2>Links</h2><ul><li><a href="../index.html">Docs Home</a></li><li><a href="index.html">Architecture Home</a></li><li><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="#comments_section">User Comments</a></li></ul></div><div><h2>Contents</h2><ul><li><a href="index.html">Contents</a></li><li><a href="overview.html">Overview</a></li><li><a href="startup.html">Server Startup</a></li><li><a href="requestProcess.html">Request Process</a></li></ul></div></nav></div></div><div id="mainRight"><div id="content"><h2>Table of Contents</h2><h3 id="Preface">Preface</h3><div class="text">
<p>This section of the Tomcat documentation attempts to explain
the architecture and design of the Tomcat server. It includes significant
contributions from several tomcat developers:
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<li>Yoav Shapira
(<a href="mailto:yoavs@apache.org">yoavs@apache.org</a>)</li>
<li>Jeanfrancois Arcand
(<a href="mailto:jfarcand@apache.org">jfarcand@apache.org</a>)</li>
<li>Filip Hanik
(<a href="mailto:fhanik@apache.org">fhanik@apache.org</a>)</li>
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<li><a href="overview.html"><strong>Overview</strong></a> -
An overview of the Tomcat server architecture with key terms
and concepts.</li>
<li><a href="startup.html"><strong>Server Startup</strong></a> -
A detailed description, with sequence diagrams, of how the Tomcat
server starts up.</li>
<li><a href="requestProcess.html"><strong>Request Process Flow</strong></a> -
A detailed description of how Tomcat handles a request.</li>
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