Servlet 3.1 comes with two powerful features:ġ. Now let’s have a look what’s the benefit of Servlet 3.1 Tomcat 8 runtime comes with the following specifications: Though, the released version is a BETA now and you cannot use this in a HCP account at this moment, pretty soon it’s gonna be GA and thus let’s have a look what brings this new runtime. However recently SAP has released a new Java runtime.
You can find the feature comparisons in the table below: For most of the productive scenario, this is a quite stable and recommended runtime. It used Apache Tomcat 7 and runs on JDK 7.
Then came the Java Web Tomcat 7 runtime which was more lightweight and simplified. Certainly this is more scalable and supports a lot of features. It also used OSGi based Kernel and runs on JDK 7. Next logical step was to get the runtime certified and thus came Java EE 6 web profile that is the Java EE certified runtime for HCP. The first Java runtime that was integrated with HCP was Java Web. SAP HANA Cloud Platform supports 3 variants of Java runtime.
