A number of additional third party components may be used with Apache
Tomcat. These components may be built by users should they need them or they
can be downloaded from one of the mirrors.
To down load the extras components open the Tomcat 6 download page and
select "browse" from the Quick Navigation Links. The extras components can be
found in bin/extras.
The additional components are built using the extras.xml Ant
script which is present in the source bundle of Tomcat.
The build process is the following:
Follow the build instructions to build a
Tomcat binary from the source bundle (note: it will be used by the build
process of the additional components, but does not need to be actually
used later on)
Execute the command ant -f extras.xml to run the build
script
The additional components JARs will be placed in the
output/extras folder
Refer to the documentation below about the usage of these JARs
Tomcat uses a package renamed commons-logging API implementation which is
hardcoded to use the java.util.logging API. The commons-logging additional
component builds a full fledged package renames commons-logging
implementation which can be used to replace the implementation provided with
Tomcat. See the logging page for usage
instructions.
Tomcat provides factories for JSR 109 which may be used to resolve web
services references. Place the generated catalina-ws.jar as well as
jaxrpc.jar and wsdl4j.jar (or another implementation of JSR 109) in the
Tomcat lib folder.
Users should be aware that wsdl4j.jar is licensed under CPL 1.0 and not the
Apache License version 2.0.
