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It was discussed during todays TMC meeting to move from Servlet API 2.5 to 3.0 but to keep the XML-based web deployment descriptor.

Overview which version of Apache Tomcat supports which version of the Java Servlet API https://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html

To fit with the JSF 2.2 upgrade the Servlet API should be upgraded to 3.1. see #991

With next major release version support for Servlet API 4.0 (Tomcat 9.x) should be considered.

With PR #1271 the upgrade to Servlet API 3.1 has been completed and is available with deegree 3.5, the supported API matrix https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/End-of-Life-and-Support-Matrix has been updated.

The request for enhancement to support higher versions of Servlet API are documented in issue #1401.

As far as I know the `DEEGREE_WORKSPACE_ROOT` directory can contain files which can be edit via the deegree administration console. Thus these resources need to be writable. To read from...

And what I missed to say is, that I do agree with both proposed strategies for resolving the deegree workspace as described in [comment 3](https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/issues/508#issuecomment-76747931) and [comment 5](https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/issues/508#issuecomment-76762111). Furthermore the...

Well, it is not forbidden by the spec. The spec says that any change to the web application (in `WEB-INF`or temporary folder) might get lost after web context re-load or...

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