> All,
> 
> I recently gave a presentation on locking-down Apache Tomcat[1] and I
> briefly discussed the "sharp edges" present in Tomcat. Some of them
> are unnecessarily sharp and may be actually unnecessary. I'm going to
> make a few proposals to remove functions from Tomcat.
> 
> Proposal: Remove APR connector

+1

> This proposal does not recommend the removal of libtcnative. Only the
> removal of the APR connector, the APR lifecycle listener, and the
> associated native code required to support those components.

Yes, we'd need to keep that library going until at least 9.0.x is EOL.

There is then an argument for a new native library that simply wraps
OpenSSL (or ideally any OpenSSL clone). Project Panama may prove useful:
https://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

Mark

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